Childers v. D. J. Henderson & Co.

HENRY, Associate Justice.

Appellees, as creditors of Jehu Bevil, deceased, applied for letters of administration upon his estate.

Appellant resisted the grant of letters on the ground that there was no necessity for an administration because there was no property subject to one.

The only property owned by the deceased at the time of his death was a tract of land containing one hundred acres, upon which he resided, and a small quantity of personal property exempt from forced sale. Bevil had resided on the land for many years.

Besides appellant he' had three adult children and some grandchildren by…