Cook v. Hamer

CRAMER, Justice.

This suit involves the title to 40 acres of land owned by Josephine Cook in her lifetime. In June 1942, Josephine Cook made and duly executed a will leaving her estate (after payment of debts) as follows: All personal property to her nieces and nephews, Mary Hamer, Cornelius Hamer, Burch Hamer, Dalton Hamer, Raleigh Ha-mer, Florence Wylie, and Marie Grimes; a 40-acre tract of land in the T. L. Chen-oweth Survey in Dallas County to her brother Henry Cook; 53½ acres of land (two tracts of 26⅜ acres each) in the M. C. J. Bays 320-acre Survey in Collin County to her brother J. W.…