Townsend v. Munger
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. The petition of Monger, administrator de bonis non of tlie estate of Thomas McQueen, filed September 23d, 1851, alleged tlie death of McQueen in 1834, leaving a will; tlie probate of tlie will, same year, in the jurisdiction of Austin where McQueen had resided ; the confirmation of Townsend and Jas.
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Appeal from Travis. The petition of Monger, administrator de bonis non of tlie estate of Thomas McQueen, filed September 23d, 1851, alleged tlie death of McQueen in 1834, leaving a will; tlie probate of tlie will, same year, in the jurisdiction of Austin where McQueen had resided ; the confirmation of Townsend and Jas. Baird as executors; the confirmation of Baird’s final account by tlie Probate Court of the county of Austin, in 1841, showing a balance due tlie eslate. of $112.G8, which he was ordered to pay over to Townsend; the resignation of Baird at the same time; the judgment of said…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The objection to the admissibility in evidence of the transcript of -the record of the Probate Court, introduced by the plaintiff, because not certified to contain all the proceedings of the court relating to the admissibility of the succession, is not well founded. It was competent for tire plaintiff' to give in evidence such of the proceedings as were material to his case, and' it was not incumbent on him to introduce more.
Tlie principal questions iu the cases are in relation to the validity of the judgment of the Probate Court, rendered iu 1S47, which constitutes the principal cause of…
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