In Re Dudley's Estate

SMITH, Chief Justice.

On May 16, 1929, in pursuance of a compromise agreement, Alma Eugene and Joseph Bernard Dudley, minor children of Annie Dudley, obtained judgment for $10,-000 against the St. Louis Brownsville & Mexico Railway Company, in the Twenty-Eighth district court of Nueces county.

The Texas State Bank & Trust Company of Corpus Christi was thereupon appointed and qualified as guardian of the estates of said minors, by the probate court of said county, and the said sum of $10,000 was paid over to said bank as such guardian.

Five and one-half years later, on December 16, 1933, Sidney…