Seawell v. Greenway, Bro.
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Calhoun. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. An assignment was executed by Chambers Etter, an insolvent, to a former trustee, for the benefit of his creditors. The creditors applied to the District Court to enforce the assignment, and obtain payment of their claims.
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Error from Calhoun. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. An assignment was executed by Chambers Etter, an insolvent, to a former trustee, for the benefit of his creditors. The creditors applied to the District Court to enforce the assignment, and obtain payment of their claims. The trustee having died pending the litigation, application was made by the insolvent, with the concurrence -of the attorney of the principal creditors, to the district judge, for the appointment of the plaintiff in error as trustee in his place. The application was granted, and the plaintiff, under the said…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
It appears from the record of this cause, that the appellant, Seawell, was administering a trust estate for the benefit of creditors, under the control of the District Court for Calhoun county.
It appears that the court, from time to time, appointed an auditor to examine the accounts of the trustee, and to report upon them. It appears, that at the January Term, 1857, of the court, the trustee filed an account, and the auditor appointed *694by the court, also filed a report; but -whether the report of the auditor was upon the account then filed by the trustee, or had relation'to other accounts…
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