Jones v. Lewis
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Matagorda. This suit was brought to recover professional services, rendered as an Attorney and Counsellor at law, to Kingston, in his life time, and to three several administrations on his estate.
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Appeal from Matagorda. This suit was brought to recover professional services, rendered as an Attorney and Counsellor at law, to Kingston, in his life time, and to three several administrations on his estate. The first administration on the estate of Kingston, was granted to Thomas Pilkington, on the 20th May, 1845, who continued as such until his death, sometime before the 23rd February, 1846, as on that day, administration was granted to Jacob Quick, who held the appointment until his death, sometime before the 25th January, 1847; and on that day, administration was granted to Catharine…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
We shall omit noticing all the points presented by the assignment of errors, and confine our investigation to such as we believe to be the most important. From the second bill of exceptions, it appears that the Judge charged the jury, “ That if it appeared that plaintiff was the attorney “ of the estate of Kingston, deceased, generally, from the time “ of the appointment of the first administrator in 1845, up to “ the time he was discharged, as such attorney, in 1849, by “ Jones, who administered on the said estate for the third time, “ (a mistake, he is the fourth administrator,) the…
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