Bergstroem v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. Geo. H. Noonan. Suit by the state against Otelia Bergstroem as principal, and Louis Bergstroem, Paul Wagner and F. Hummel, sureties on her bond as surviving wife of Charles Bergstroem, deceased, administering, as such surviving wife, the community estate under the statute, which allows her to manage the community estate without submitting to the jurisdiction of the county court.
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. Geo. H. Noonan. Suit by the state against Otelia Bergstroem as principal, and Louis Bergstroem, Paul Wagner and F. Hummel, sureties on her bond as surviving wife of Charles Bergstroem, deceased, administering, as such surviving wife, the community estate under the statute, which allows her to manage the community estate without submitting to the jurisdiction of the county court. The plaintiff bad, in the year 1874, sued and obtained judgment against J. G. Ward, administrator of an escheated estate, and the sureties on his bond, of whom Charles…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
The verdict of the jury was rendered upon an issue of fact presented by the charge of the court, which was not warranted by the pleadings and the evidence in the case. This suit was brought by the state of Texas to recover from a surviving widow and the sureties on the bond which she had executed *94under the statute to manage the community estate of herself and her deceased husband, the amount of a certain judgment against her and certain other persons, upon the ground that the condition of that bond, to the effect that she would “ faithfully administer said estate and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mays v. CockrumTexas Supreme Court · 1882
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Allen v. StovallTexas Supreme Court · 1901
- Thompson v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1907
- Hurst v. CrawfordCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1919