Linares, Administrator v. Linares
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Webb County. In the administration of the estate of Pioquinto Linares, deceased, property was set aside to the widow, as homestead, on her application, and this judgment was sustained by the District Court, on appeal by the administrator, but was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals, on appeal by the widow. The administrator then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This is a proceeding instituted in the County Court in matter of the estate of Pioquinto Linares, deceased, by Concepcion Garcia de Linares to have set apart to her a certain lot in the city of Laredo, claimed to be the homestead of the family. The application was refused by the County Court and also by the District Court, but the judgment was reversed in the Court of Civil Appeals and judgment there rendered for appellant.
The following are the facts found by the judge who tried the case in the District Court:
“Applicant and deceased were married in the Republic of Mexico…
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