Wadsworth v. Cardwell

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

Appellant sued Mrs. Mary Card-well, as principal, and Tom Brooks and W. T. Taylor, as sureties, on a bond given by them in accordance with the provisions of article 1843, Revised Statutes (1879), to prevent an administration on the estate of John Cardwell, the deceased husband of Mrs. Mary Cardwell, and to secure payment of Wadsworth’s claim against the estate upon which the application for administration was based. The suit was brought in Wharton County, in which the bond had been given, and in the courts of which there was jurisdiction of the estate. Pending the…