Woolley v. D. Sullivan & Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Mary D. Woolley et al. sued D. Sullivan & Co. et al. in the District Court. Exceptions by the defendants to the petition were sustained ■and the case dismissed. Plaintiffs appealed, and on affirmance by the Court of Civil Appeals obtained writ of error.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Mary D. Woolley et al. sued D. Sullivan & Co. et al. in the District Court. Exceptions by the defendants to the petition were sustained ■and the case dismissed. Plaintiffs appealed, and on affirmance by the Court of Civil Appeals obtained writ of error. Plaintiff in error Mary D. Woolley and defendants in error D. Sullivan & Co. et al. filed motions for rehearing in the Supreme Court, which were overruled in accordance with the opinion thereon filed June 23, 1898. The grounds for rehearing presented…
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought April 1, 1897, in District Court of Bexar County, Texas, by Mary D. Woolley joined by the minor children of herself and Richard Woolley, deceased, against D. Sullivan & Co. and H. Brendel, the petition alleging substantially as follows: (1) That Richard Woolley died January 7, 1896, leaving a will which was duty probated in Bexar County the same year, whereby Mary D. Woolley was named as executrix, and wherein it was directed that no other action be taken on his estate than the probating of the will and filing an inventory, and that the…
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