Ryan v. Maxey

Gould, Associate Justice.

Appellants, claiming as the heirs of Mariah T. Fulton, deceased, brought this suit to recover of S. B. Maxey one thousand and seventy-two acres of land in Collin county. The other defendants voluntarily made themselves parties and united themselves with Maxey in answering, in substance, as follows : That T. F. Roberts was, at the time of the death of Mariah, in 1864, her lawful guardian and in possession of her property, being at the same time guardian of one of the plaintiffs, Hugh Fulton; that there was no administration on her estate, which was large, but that some…