Hicks v. Oliver

HOBBY, Judge.

The appellants, S. J. Hicks and others, filed a petition in June, 1888, in the Probate Court of Rusk County to set aside an approval by that court made in March, 1887, of a claim of $648 held by the appellee, Mrs. E. J. Oliver, against the estate of her deceased husband R. W. Oliver, then being administered by her in said court.

It was sought to vacate the approval of the claim upon the alleged grounds that the appellants were distributees of said estate and had no actual notice of the filing of the claim; that it was not a just demand against the estate, the only proof thereof…