Schneider v. C. Hildenbrand & Co.

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted in the Probate Court of Galveston County by the defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, upon a contract in writing made in September, 1883, between C. F. Hildenbrand, now deceased, and of whose estate the plaintiff in error is administrator, and the firm of C. Hildenbrand & Co., then composed of C. Hildenbrand and Pat Barry, the former of whom subsequently died, leaving the defendant in error, Mrs. Elise Hildenbrand, his widow, his sole legatee and devisee. By the contract, C. F. Hildenbrand leased to C. Hildenbrand & Co., for…