Bondies v. Buford
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon. H. 0. Pedigo. Suit by injunction, filed April 24, 1874, by appellants George T. Bondies, William Bondies and Laura George, joined by her husband, W. A. George, against appellee T. R. Buford, executor of Letitia Simpson, deceased.
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Error from Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon. H. 0. Pedigo. Suit by injunction, filed April 24, 1874, by appellants George T. Bondies, William Bondies and Laura George, joined by her husband, W. A. George, against appellee T. R. Buford, executor of Letitia Simpson, deceased. Buford, the defendant, resided in the county of Jefferson, in which the suit was brought, but the will of Mrs.'Simpson was probated in the county of San Augustine, where she died in the year 1861. At the time of her death she was the widow of Wm. M. Simpson, deceased. She was also the mother of the defendant Buford by…
1Opinion of the Court
Delany, J. Com. App.
Of the eight assignments of error we will consider only the sixth, which relates to the dismissal of the suit. Counsel on both sides treat this as the vital question in the *269case, and we concur with them. It is manifest from the record that the ground upon which the court proceeded was that it had no jurisdiction of the subject matter, and if the court was correct in that view, the case is at an end. It is clear that the plaintiffs could not, in the district court of Jefferson county, maintain their suit against the defendant as executor of Wm. M. Simpson; for that…
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