Williams v. McKnight

POPE, Justice.

Petitioner, D. D. Williams, as Independent Executor and Trustee under the will of James N. McKnight, Jr., deceased, filed this action against Mabel S. McKnight, the decedent’s widow, to recover for the estate one-half of three savings accounts which she withdrew after the death of her husband. Petitioner contends that the funds belonged to the community estate of Mr. and Mrs. McKnight. Respondent, Mabel McKnight, contends that she and her husband complied with the 1961 amendment to Section 46 of the V.A.T.S. Probate Code by executing an agreement as to each account and that the…