Buckner Orphans Home v. Berry

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is the third appeal involving the estate of Charles Thomas Tatum, deceased.

The other two appeals are Atkins v. Womble, Tex.Civ.App., 300 S.W.2d 688 (writ ref. n. r. e.), and Womble v. Atkins, Tex.Civ.App., 314 S.W.2d 150, affirmed Tex. 331 S.W.2d 294.

Historical Background

First Appeal. Charles Thomas Tatum died December 19, 1952. He left a formal will dated May 25, 1945. Among the beneficiaries named in the will were Buck ner Orphans Home, Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children, and Mrs. Nettie Edna Womble. For many years Mrs. Womble had been Tatum’s…