Putnam v. Young
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. X. B. Saunders. Suit brought July 26, 1874, by J. G. Young, guardian of the minors Elizabeth Ann Miller, Mary M. Miller and John Miller, against Susan E. Putnam and her husband, Willis Putnam, to recover a tract of six hundred and sixteen acres of land.
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Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. X. B. Saunders. Suit brought July 26, 1874, by J. G. Young, guardian of the minors Elizabeth Ann Miller, Mary M. Miller and John Miller, against Susan E. Putnam and her husband, Willis Putnam, to recover a tract of six hundred and sixteen acres of land. The petition alleged that the land was the community property of John and Melissa M. Miller, the father and mother of the minor plaintiffs; that Melissa M. died in June, 1864, and that from her the plaintiffs inherited an interest of one-half in the land; that in 1865 John Miller married Susan…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
This is a companion-case to that of Pressley’s Heirs v. Robinson, decided at this term, infra, as they are similar in many of the material questions presented. The opinion in that case is here referred to, and adopted as the opinion in this, in so far as the questions are the same.
As both John and Melissa M. Miller, the father and mother of plaintiffs, died prior to August 15, 1870, the rights of the parties, so far as governed by our probate laws, must be regulated by that of March 20, 1848 (Pasch, Dig., p. 300).
As there was a pending administration on the estate of…
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