Brooks v. San Antonio Joint Stock Land Bank

COMBS, Justice.

This case originated in probate court in the administration of the estate of R. E. Brooks, deceased. A complete statement of the case is necessarily long and involved. To conserve space in the printed opinion, we shall here make only a condensed summary of such facts as we deem necessary to an understanding of our holdings, and will file a more extended statement as an appendix that it may be used on application for writ of error, but not to be published.

Appellee, which we will refer to as the Bank, held a lien against 308 acres of land belonging to the estate of R. E. Brooks,…