Bernardoni v. Holman

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the 56th District Court of Galveston County, sustaining special exceptions of the appel-lees to the pleadings of the appellants seeking to recover against the estate of the late E. B. Holman, as County Judge of Galveston County, and his official bondsmen, for losses claimed to have been sustained by appellants as a proximate result of the Judge’s alleged negligent failure to perform the probate duties required of him by law (particularly by R.S. Article 4141); the damages sought were declared upon as having been visited upon them by the…