Diaz v. Chinn

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing this cause for want of jurisdiction of the district court.

Plaintiffs below and appellants here are Victoria Diaz and Dolores Gomez Juarez. Defendants below were J. H. Chinn, who had been appointed administrator of the estates of Victoriano Diaz, and Pablo Diaz, both deceased, by the County Court of- Uvalde County, and Jake Schwartz and Lee Schwartz, sureties upon the administrator’s bond given by Chinn to insure the faithful performance of his duties under such appointment.

Chinn and his sureties, by separate pleas, challenged the…