Johnson v. Hogan

H. McLester brought this suit as the administrator de bonis non of the estate of Joseph E. Tanner, in 1861. James E. Tanner, a former administrator, had died, and John D. Hogan, Joseph Glover, E. T. Barrett, and John T. Miller, were sued as securities on his bond. Joseph E. Tanner died in the year 1853, at the town of Saluria, in Calhoun county, Texas. He left no surviving wife, but four children—Nancy, George W., Catharine, and Mary—survived him. The children were of tender ages, the eldest, Nancy, being but fourteen years old at the time of her father’s decease. Catharine and Mary had been…