Legal Opinion
Smith v. Hodges
Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)
Decided August 20, 2009No. 11-07-00307-CVPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TERRY McCALL, Justice.
Oscar D. Galloway died in 2002. Betty L. Smith, Nancy L. Hodges, and Ned L. Galloway are Galloway’s siblings and heirs at law. On August 8, 2002, the county court issued an order granting an independent administration and naming Smith independent administratrix of the estate.
On November 29, 2006, Smith filed an application with the county court to sell approximately 164 acres in Stonewall County. The only reason given by Smith for the application to sell real estate was that “[t]he property cannot be partitioned.” On January 4, 2007, the county judge refused to…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Laas v. SeidelTexas Supreme Court · 1902
- Bunting v. PearsonTexas Supreme Court · 1968
- Rowland v. MooreTexas Supreme Court · 1943
- Dallas Services for Visually Impaired Children, Inc. v. Broadmoor IICourt of Appeals of Texas · 1982
- Freeman v. BanksCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1936
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3Cited by3 opinions
- In the Estate of Billy Wayne Phillips v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2025
- Jerry Lee Sanders v. Cheryl Vaughan, as Independent of the Estate of Dollie Barrett, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2022
- Texas Petroleum Land Management, LLC, Robert Ralph Riggs, Elizabeth Ann Riggs Lawrence, and Jeane Hancock Riggs Weller v. Dorothy Kalmbach McMillan, Kathryn McMillan Taylor, Austin Trust Company, and Nancy M. Higgs, Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)2022