Kennedy v. Briere

Moore, Associate Justice.

On the 2d of March, 1872, the appellee, Adolph De Briere, brought suit in the District Court of Harris county, against the appellant, John Kennedy, to recover the value of the property bequeathed, as is alleged, to said Kennedy, in trust for appellee, by his father, St. Aime De Briere, who died in Harris county, Texas, on the 29th of April, 1864. By this will, which was executed on the 25th of said month, four days prior to Ms death, the testator bequeathed to appellant, whom he also appointed his executor, all his property in trust, after the payment of Ms debts, for…