Young v. Gray
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Booty. The appellants brought this suit by a bill of review to have the county court revise and correct its decree rendered, distributing the estate bf Ellen Y. Gray, deceased, and discharging Thos. J. Lacy, guardian of the estate.
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Appeal from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Booty. The appellants brought this suit by a bill of review to have the county court revise and correct its decree rendered, distributing the estate bf Ellen Y. Gray, deceased, and discharging Thos. J. Lacy, guardian of the estate. Ellen Gray died about 1879, and the decree was rendered in 1880. Appellants alleged that Ellen Gray died intestate, leaving neither father, mother, brother, sister, husband nor descendants surviving her. Polly Gray, one of the appellees, was the mother of the appellants and the grandmother of Ellen Gray; Wm. Gray,…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
The question presented for our consideration, in this case, in relation to the action of the county court of Busk county in the matter of the final partition and distribution of the deceased minor’s estate, in a proceeding there instituted for that purpose, against the guardian, is not free from difficulty. It has been very carefully inquired into, and all authorities accessible to us.' bearing on the subject have been examined.
After much deliberation we have reached the conclusion that in a suit of this kind, in the county court, against the guardian after the death…
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