Burks v. Bennett
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Maverick. Tried below before the Hon. Thos. M. Paschal. This suit grew out of a probate proceeding in the district court, in the estate of J. M. and E. A. Ramirez, deceased. A part of the proceeding will be found reported in Burks v. Bennett, 55 Tex., 237. After the administration was transferred to the district court, Mrs. Burks, as administratrix, presented an account of the.administration to the court, which was contested by Mrs. Bennett as heir.
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Appeal from Maverick. Tried below before the Hon. Thos. M. Paschal. This suit grew out of a probate proceeding in the district court, in the estate of J. M. and E. A. Ramirez, deceased. A part of the proceeding will be found reported in Burks v. Bennett, 55 Tex., 237. After the administration was transferred to the district court, Mrs. Burks, as administratrix, presented an account of the.administration to the court, which was contested by Mrs. Bennett as heir. Several of the items were objected to as credits upon the ground that John S. Sproull, who as county judge had approved the claims…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.
This is a proceeding in the district court in the administration of the estate of Ramirez and his wife, both deceased. The administration had been transferred to the district court from the county court of Maverick county, on account of the disqualification of the county judge. The proceeding resulting in the transfer of the administration is reported in 55 Tex., 237. There two grounds of disqualification of the county judge were asserted and relied on: the first, that he was a creditor of the estate; and the other, that he had qualified as temporary administrator prior to…
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