Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SAN ANTONIO, July 14 (UPI) -- An on-again, off-again engagement has sparked a Texas court battle over a 5.5-carat diamond ring worth more than $20,000. Lawyers for the late Shay Gebhardt contend the engagement ring she received from dentist Hulan Yarbrough is part of her estate but Yarbrough thinks he should get the ring back, The San Antonio Express reports. Advertisement Court records show Gebhardt, a former Bexar County (Texas) Court-at-Law judge, decided to call off their engagement in 2003 and promised in a letter to sell the ring and give Yarbrough the $20,000 he paid for it. But before she could do it, the two started dating again and were living together when Gebhardt died of cancer last year at the age of 58. In Texas, the person who ends the engagement relinquishes the ring but because of the on-again, off-again relationship in this case, Probate Judge Tom Rickoff will have to decide. The central question is whether the two were engaged at the time Gebhardt died.
