Fisk v. Norvel
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Williamson. Suit by the appellee, as administrator pendente lite of the estate of Milton Hides, against the appellants to recover a tract of land. There was a motion to dismiss; a demurrer; general denial; special verdict; judgment for the plaintiff; motion in arrest oí judgment overruled. The other facts, so far as material, will he found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
HuMPinxTi, Ch. J.
The appellee, Xorvel, as administrator pendente lite of one Milton Hicks, deceased, sued the appellants for the recovery of a tract of laud. One of the principal questions in the cause, and the only one which I shall examine, is whether the plaintiff, by virtue of the grant of administration pendente Hie, had lawful authority to bring the action, or whether the grant was nuil and void, and conferred no right to represent the interests of the deceased.
The facts of the case, as affecting this question, are that Milton Hicks departed this life in 1839; that administration in the…
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