Hampton v. Hampton
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Guadalupe. Tried below before Hon. T. H. Spooner. From the order of the County Court setting aside the guardian’s sale, only the defendants E. Morris and Hoffman appealed to the District Court, and they alone prosecute this appeal from the judgment of the District Court, which also vacated and annulled the sale.
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES, Chief Justice.
— W. M. Hampton, Sr., was guardian of the estate of W. M. Hampton, Jr., and Jennette Hampton, minors, guardianship in the County Court of Guadalupe County. Through orders of that court a sale was made of inventoried property by the guardian to Mary L. Hampton, who was his wife, by deed dated June 9, 1881, the orders and deed reciting a consideration of $1000, which represented at that time the fair value of the property. W. M. Hampton and Mary L. Hampton sold it by warranty deed to E. Morris, one of the appellants, on July 21, 1881, who resold to Hoffman, the other, by…
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