Bounds v. Caudle

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This is an appeal from two separate judgments resulting from a consolidated jury trial of a probate proceeding and a tort action. These suits arose from the death by gun shot on March 1, 1971, of Robbie Bounds. The children of Mrs. Bounds alleged that their stepfather, Dr. L. D. Bounds, wrongfully caused that death.

Cause # 110,807-A in the trial court was an appeal from the judgment rendered by a county court at law of Nueces County, Texas, admitting the will (wherein Dr. Bounds was designated primary beneficiary and independent executor) of Robbie Morris Cau-dle Bounds…