Walker v. Fields

This is an appeal from the action of the district judge directing a jury to return verdict refusing the application of appellants, Brock Walker and Fannie Rhodes, son and daughter respectively of S. F. Walker, to probate the alleged nuncupative will of the latter. Appellees, heirs of the deceased, contested the application in the probate court and on appeal to the district court.

The facts which form the basis for the court’s action are not in dispute and are, in substance, these: S. F. Walker, the decedent, at his residence in Kaufman county in his last illness called his son, Brock Walker,…