Riedel v. Kerlick

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a suit to construe a joint and mutual will. Herman Riedel and his wife Caroline Riedel made a joint and mutual will on December 4, 1931. On July 6, 1951, Herman Riedel died, leaving surviving him, his wife, Caroline and their only child, Harlan C. Riedel. The wife Caroline Riedel probated the joint will on July 26, 1951, and qualified as independent executrix of the estate. About nine years later, on November 6, 1960, Harlan C. Rie-del, the only child born of the marriage of Herman and Caroline, died testate in Dallas, leaving all of his estate to his wife…