Hardgrove v. De Tray

This is a contest over the probate of the purported holographic will of Dennis W. McKen-na, a resident of Fon du Lac, Wis., where he died on June 11,1929, at the age of 77 years.

Some months after the death of the testa tor, Dennis F. De Tray, unrelated to the testator but named as a beneficiary in the alleged will, filed application in the county court of Bexar county, Tex., for the probate of the instrument as a will, upon the sole jurisdictional ground that at the time of the testator’s death he “resided and had his domicile in Bexar County.” This application was contested by Minnie V.…