Legal Opinion
Bailey v. Bailey
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 29, 1943No. 5533PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STOKES, Justice.
This is an action to probate a written will which was not produced and which the proponents alleged was lost or destroyed by some person other than the testator but not revoked by him.
On June 16, 1937, James R. Bailey executed his typewritten will. He died March 25, 1941, in Travis County.' After his death no will executed by him was found or produced. On May 21, 1941, Frank A. Bailey, Sr., a brother of decedent, filed in the County Court of Travis County an application to probate, as the will of decedent, an unsigned typed carbon copy of the will executed by decedent in 1937.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Collyer v. . CollyerNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Texas & N. O. R. Co. v. BrannenTexas Commission of Appeals · 1942
- Wright v. ConwayWyoming Supreme Court · 1925
- McIntosh v. MooreCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1899
- Aschenbeck v. AschenbeckCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1933
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3Cited by21 opinions
- In Re the Estate of Capps, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2005
- Matter of Estate of GloverTexas Supreme Court · 1988
- New York State Library School Ass'n v. AtwaterCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1961
- Berry v. GriffinCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1975
- Simpson v. NeelyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1949
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