Kalteyer v. Wipff
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Wipff, on attaining his majority, brought certiorari in the District Court to review the proceedings had in the probate court in the settlement of the estate of his deceased father. From a judgment recovered by him. appeal was prosecuted by defendants Kalteyers, and on affirmance after reformation they obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
John B. Wipff, under whom all the parties now before the court claim the property in controversy, died in 1874, leaving three children, Mrs. Mary Heder, Agatha Wipff, who afterwards married Charles Schmidt, and John L. Wipff, the original plaintiff, who was a minor. Soon after the death of John B. Wipff, Charles Schmidt, who had married Agatha, took out letters of administration on his estate. During the administration, an order was entered charging John L. Wipff, the minor, with an advancement of $2000. Later, the administrator applied for an order to sell the…
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