Stoughton Wagon Co. v. S. G. Dreyfus Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Nacogdoches County; D. D. Guinn, Judge. By judgment of the district court, reversing the judgment of the county court, the claim of S. G. Dreyfus Company against the estate of E. R. Stallings, deceased, was given priority, and the Stoughton Wagon Company appeals.
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Appeal from District Court, Nacogdoches County; D. D. Guinn, Judge. By judgment of the district court, reversing the judgment of the county court, the claim of S. G. Dreyfus Company against the estate of E. R. Stallings, deceased, was given priority, and the Stoughton Wagon Company appeals. This case is presented to us upon an agreed statement, as follows: “It is agreed by the parties hereto that this cause was tried -in the district court of Nacog-doches county, Tex., February 12, 1915, and the following agreement is submitted to the court of Civil Appeals and the Supreme Court for…
1Opinion of the CourtConley, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The one question involved under the several assignments of error filed by the appellant in this cause relates to the action of the court in allowing as a preference the debts incurred by the administratrix in carrying on the mercantile business during the time she was administering the estate, over the debts of general creditors of the decedent, and which debts were existing claims against the estate at the time the administratrix was appointed, and we proceed to consider only the matter of the classification of the claims.
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