Frost v. Frost
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. Livingston Lindsay.* In June, 1871, V. M. Frost, for herself and John Wharton Frost and Mary Frost, her minor children, by her, as next friend, instituted suit against Ada, Henry H., Franklin Pierce, Harriet Ella, and Miles Frost, children of S. M. Frost, her deceased husband — Franklin Pierce Frost and Harriet Ella Frost being minors — and against J. E. Pettus, J. C. Williams, Sophia and Hathan Mayblum, W. L. Davidson, and…
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Appeal from Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. Livingston Lindsay.* In June, 1871, V. M. Frost, for herself and John Wharton Frost and Mary Frost, her minor children, by her, as next friend, instituted suit against Ada, Henry H., Franklin Pierce, Harriet Ella, and Miles Frost, children of S. M. Frost, her deceased husband — Franklin Pierce Frost and Harriet Ella Frost being minors — and against J. E. Pettus, J. C. Williams, Sophia and Hathan Mayblum, W. L. Davidson, and others. The petition set up in substance as follows: That she was the wife of S. M. Frost, deceased; that the minors,…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
We find a preliminary question in this case, which must be disposed of before consider-' ing those which go to the merits of the appeal.
On the 13th of January, 1873, the term of the court to-which the appeal was returnable, on application of appellants, supported by affidavits, an alternative writ of mandamus issued to the presiding judge before whom the case was tried in the court below, requiring him on or before the 1st day of April thereafter, to sign and certify a statement of the facts proved on the trial of said cause, and also to sign and certify the bill of…
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