Hagan v. Snider

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought Bessie B. Snider, his niece and an orphan about eight years old, from Marietta, Indian Territory, where her last surviving parent had resided and died, to his home in Erath County, Texas, to live and abide with him there, and was then appointed guardian of her person and estate by the County Court of that county May 15, 1905. Appellant, a resident of the Indian Territory and a stranger to the orphan, by a proceeding instituted in said County Court, sought to have this appointment vacated, and, being unsuccessful both in that court and in the…