Bettis v. Bettis

SHANNON, Justice.

This will contest was tried before a jury on appeal to the district court of Travis County. In response to two special issues, the jury answered that the testator had testamentary capacity and failed to find that the testator was acting under undue influence. Judgment was entered admitting the will to probate. We will affirm that judgment.

The will in question was signed by the testator, James Wallace Bettis, Jr., on January 2, 1973. He died on March 8, 1973, at the age of fifty-six. At the time of his death he was married to his second wife, Ann Joy Bettis. No children had…