Weekes, McCarthy & Co. v. Galveston Gas Co.

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

—Appellants are judgment credit-tors of Thomas Pierce Mchols, and sued out writ of garnishment against ■appellee, who answered that Peter Gray Mchols, the ancestor of Thomas Pierce Mchols, owned at the time of his death forty-six shares of stock in the Galveston Gas Company, appellee herein. After sendee of writ of garnishment, administration was opened on the estate of Peter Gray Mchols, and the administrator intervened in this cause and filed plea in abatement, which was sustained by the court and this suit dismissed.

Appellants call in question the correctness…