Ripley v. Dearing

WILLIAMS, Justice.

The County Court of Upshur County on November 11, 1935, in cause No. 1861 on its probate' docket, admitted to probate as the will of Arthur G. Dearing, an instrument in the form of a letter which reads:

“Gainesville, Texas

June 20 -97

My dear Ena.

I rec’d your most welcome letter yesterday evening and you do not know how glad I was to get it, although I hardly expected it would be there but I went for it just the same. We are going to start out threshing about the middle of this week if the weather is good, but I am going to try very hard to get to the P. O. every Sunday…