Lacoste v. Chief Justice
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. The case was tried before Hon. Thomas J. Devine, one of the district judges. This suit was brought by the appellee for the use of Amos Nobles, heir at law of Durant Nobles, deceased, against ¡Reuben T. Creigler, administrator pro tem. of said deceased, and also against the appellant, Lacoste, and one Hanson Alsbury, sureties of said Creigler, upon his bond as. such administrator.
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Appeal from Bexar. The case was tried before Hon. Thomas J. Devine, one of the district judges. This suit was brought by the appellee for the use of Amos Nobles, heir at law of Durant Nobles, deceased, against ¡Reuben T. Creigler, administrator pro tem. of said deceased, and also against the appellant, Lacoste, and one Hanson Alsbury, sureties of said Creigler, upon his bond as. such administrator. The bond was executed on the 19th of October, 1853, under the 27th section of the act. (Paschal’s Dig., Art. 1287, Note 474.) The inventory filed exhibited assets consisting of $1,026 in money and…
1Opinion of the CourtCoke, J.
—The only points raised by the assignments of' error necessary to be considered arise on the admission in evidence of the statement of the defendant, (in' court below,) Creigler, in answer to an interrogatory propounded in another suit, which answer admitted the conversion to his own use of $360 belonging to his intestate’s estate during *422the pro tem. administration, and the charge of the court with reference to that admission, which will he considered together.
So far as the defendant, Creigler himself is concerned, the admission of the testimony is unobjectionable. It is a rule of almost…
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