Hammond v. Mays
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. H.. Barksdale. Clotilda E. Mays filed a petition in the District Court of Dallas county against Mary E. Hammond (formerly Mays) and her husband, E. M. Hammond, Samuel B., William, and Enoch Mays, adults, and D. B., Ida L., and Lula J. Mays, minors, alleging that plaintiff was widow and the defendants children of E. G-. Mays, deceased; that deceased died intestate, and had at his death in his possession certain trust funds, as…
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Error from Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. H.. Barksdale. Clotilda E. Mays filed a petition in the District Court of Dallas county against Mary E. Hammond (formerly Mays) and her husband, E. M. Hammond, Samuel B., William, and Enoch Mays, adults, and D. B., Ida L., and Lula J. Mays, minors, alleging that plaintiff was widow and the defendants children of E. G-. Mays, deceased; that deceased died intestate, and had at his death in his possession certain trust funds, as trustee, for the benefit of plaintiff and her children. The court was asked to divest the trust fund out of the heirs of…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The petition for the writ of error and the writ of error bond not only fails to properly describe, but unquestionably misdescribes the judgment which *488plaintiffs in error seek to have reviewed by this court. The motion of defendant to dismiss must therefore be sustained.
To avoid misconception of our views in the matter in any proceeding which may hereafter be instituted by any of the parties interested in "the trust estate.to which the proceeding disclosed in the record refers, we deem it proper to say that we do not concur in views expressed by counsel for the…
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