Browne v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Tarrant County. Massie, appointed guardian of minors in place of Mrs. Campbell, removed, sued her and bondsman, the Fidelity and Deposit Company, and Browne, who had compromised a debt to the estate with her.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Tarrant County. Massie, appointed guardian of minors in place of Mrs. Campbell, removed, sued her and bondsman, the Fidelity and Deposit Company, and Browne, who had compromised a debt to the estate with her. The surety, having settled with Massie, by amended pleading. sued to be subrogated to the.rights of Massie against Browne and against Lee, to whom the guardian had sold notes of the estate, the proceeds of which she had appropriated. Browne and Lee each obtained writ of error from a judgment on their appeal…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Ida L. Campbell was regularly appointed guardian of the estate of her minor children by the County Court of Tarrant County and qualified in the manner required by law, executing a bond with the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland as her surety. The estate consisted of lands which belonged one-half to her in her own right and the other half to her wards. The County Court entered an order requiring the guardian to sell all of the lands belonging to the estate, which she did, and F. M, Browne bought one lot at the price of $5000, paying $1000 cash, and giving four…
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