Denison v. Ingram

HEMPHILL, Chief Justice.-—Seth

Ingram filed bis petition in the court of probates for the county of Matagorda in the year 1841, praying to be duly recognized as the sole heir of Ira Ingram, his brother, deceased, and put in possession of his succession with the benefit of an inventory. He alleges that the said Ira Ingram departed this life intestate, or leaving no legal or valid will at the time of his death; that for the purpose of collecting the effects of the estate of the said Ira *520Ingram and of paying the claims against the same, the petitioner administered on the said estate, according to…