In Re Estate of Bateman

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This is a case involving the jurisdiction of a Probate Court over an independent executor. P. P. Bateman, the independent executor and life tenant of his wife’s estate, filed an inventory and appraisement on September 13, 1973. Jewel Byrd, one of several remaindermen, filed a motion entitled “complaint” to alleged omissions from that inventory on November 12, 1974, in the Smith County Court sitting in probate matters. Byrd sought to require Bateman, pursuant to Sec. 258 of the Texas Probate Code, 17B, V.T.C.S., to file an amended inventory. Bateman answered contending…