Fortune v. Killebrew
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Third District, in an appeal from Falls County.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by the plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error, to recover a tract of land consisting of about 240 acres. The land in controversy was a part of the estate of John A. Fortune, Sr., who died in the year 1863, having made his will, in which one C. V. Fortune and the defendant, William Killebrew, were nominated as executors. The will was duly probated and the executors qualified. After making some special legacies, the will provided that the testator’s estate should be divided among his children, certain of them being charged in partition…
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