Nickelson v. Ingram
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Victoria. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. This suit was commenced in the County Court, on the 14th of June 1859, by the application of Margaret Ingram, the wife of James Ingram, for letters of administration on the estate of Julia A. Nickelson deceased, the wife of John L. Nickelson.
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Appeal from Victoria. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. This suit was commenced in the County Court, on the 14th of June 1859, by the application of Margaret Ingram, the wife of James Ingram, for letters of administration on the estate of Julia A. Nickelson deceased, the wife of John L. Nickelson. The petition of the applicant alleged, that at the preceding April Term of that court, she had applied for letters of administration ; that John L. Nickelson, the husband aforesaid, had successfully contested her right, and that they were granted to him, on the usual terms of giving the…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
We are of opinion that the cause shown by Mrs. Ingram, in the County Court and in the District Court, was sufficient to authorize the grant of letters of administration upon the estate of Julia A. Nickelson, deceased.
The suit which Mrs. Ingram and her husband instituted in the District Court, against John L. Nickelson and Clara Margaret Nickelson, went off on demurrer. The effect of the judgment in that suit, was not to declare that the claim sued on was an invalid claim, but merely to declare that the suit could not be maintained in the form in which it was then presented to the court, and…
2Cited by4 opinions
- Dickson v. StricklandTexas Supreme Court · 1924
- Hayward v. City of Corpus ChristiCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1946
- Detrick v. SharrarSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
- Ferguson v. FergusonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1941