Williams v. Robinson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Walker. Tried below before the Hon. J. R. Burnett. D. D. Davis and Mary J. Davis were husband and wife. Mary J. Davis died in April, 1866, leaving surviving her her husband and minor children. The husband died November 4, 1868, leaving a second wife, Mary E. Davis.
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Appeal from Walker. Tried below before the Hon. J. R. Burnett. D. D. Davis and Mary J. Davis were husband and wife. Mary J. Davis died in April, 1866, leaving surviving her her husband and minor children. The husband died November 4, 1868, leaving a second wife, Mary E. Davis. Williams was appointed administrator of the estate of Mary J. Davis, deceased, and brought suit in the district court of Walker county against Robinson and Mary E. Davis, as administrators of D. D. Davis’ estate, for the community interest of his intestate, Mary J. Davis. A trial was had in said suit in December, 1880.…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
The second and third causes for error assigned by the plaintiff in error are the only ones which specifically indicate his grounds of complaint against the decree which he has brought here for revision. Both present in effect the same legal question, which is, whether it was competent for the district court, exercising probate jurisdiction, to allow to the administrator in the settlement of his final account compensation for certain expenses of administration, and the payment of attorney’s fees for services in a certain suit in which the estate was concerned, in…
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