Rose v. Fisher's Estate

GRAVES, Justice.

While a temporary administration was pending in the county court of Harris county sitting in probate on the estate of Cordelia Fisher, and prior to action by that court on the final report of the administra-trix, John Rose, the appellant here, appeared in that probate proceeding by intervention and contested the approval of such final report upon the claim that he had been for approximately twenty years the common-law husband of the deceased, Cordelia Fisher, and as such was entitled to share in her estate; the county court, after a hearing of the matter upon the facts,…