Womble v. Atkins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, upon introduction of estate settlement and release, “the burden shifted to [the contestant] to adduce evidence, then and there, [to] establish that the release was not valid”
• “The county court when sitting in probate is not subject to a monetary jurisdictional limit.”
• “The proper procedure” to challenge a contestant’s interest in the estate “is to try the issue of interest separately and in advance of a trial of the issues affecting the validity of the will.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).