In Re Estate of Brown

CLAUDE WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment admitting to probate a writing offered as a codicil to the will of Ada B. Brown, deceased. Miss Brown executed a formal and witnessed will in 1965. Following Miss Brown’s death in 1970 this will was duly probated by the County Court of Collin County, Texas, without contest. Thereafter Josephine May Benton filed her application in the County Court of Collin County to probate a written instrument as a codicil to Miss Brown’s will. The writing tendered as a codicil was a cryptic note written on an envelope. The envelope contained a…