Meyers v. Dittmar
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George H. Hoonan. This was a suit brought by A. C. Meyers, against the estate of E. Abat, to recover the amount of a note for $3,000, dated May 8,1862, and payable.in three years. After Abat gave the note, he made a will, and died, leaving his wife executrix, independent of the control of the Probate Court.
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George H. Hoonan. This was a suit brought by A. C. Meyers, against the estate of E. Abat, to recover the amount of a note for $3,000, dated May 8,1862, and payable.in three years. After Abat gave the note, he made a will, and died, leaving his wife executrix, independent of the control of the Probate Court. She had the will probated, filed the inventory, and did what was necessary to administer the estate without regard to the Probate Court. She sold personal property, and paid off the debts of the estate, except to those parties who z-efused to…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
All the questions upon which it is necessary for us to pass in this ease have been heretofore considered and determined in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in similar cases. (See Mathews v. Rucker, 41 Tex., 636; Short v. Abernathy, 42 Tex., 94; San Patricio County v. McLane, 44 Tex., 392, and other cases not yet reported.) It would, therefore, he a useless consumption of time to reiterate the views which have been already expressed in regard to them.
In the cases to which we have reference, the court directly overruled the entire…
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