Brewer v. Foreman

COLEMAN, Justice.

Appellants, Ben Brewer and his wife, Ann Brewer, were the proponents of a will, which was admitted to probate by the Probate Court of Harris County, Texas, as the last will of Cornelia Foreman Culpepper. On appeal to the District Court of Harris County, Texas, after trial to a jury, probate was denied.

Issues were submitted to the jury on contestants’ contentions that Mrs. Culpepper was not mentally competent to execute a will and that the will offered for probate was a result of undue influence exercised on Mrs. Culpepper by Ann Brewer. The jury was unable to agree on an…