Legal Opinion
Stone v. Brown
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 1, 1856PublishedCited by 9 opinions
Appeal from Galveston. Tried before the Hon. Nelson H. Manger. Stone, by advice of counsel, (not the gentlemen who represented him in this Court) had sold the perishable property at auction, and taken charge of the children of the deceased, and the negroes. The other facts are stated in the Opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
The record discloses the following facts : J. H. Spillman departed this life on or about the 14th day of December, A. D. 1854, leaving a will in writing subscribed by him, as follows:
“ I want my children brought to Galveston ; Dr. Stone to “ take charge of them as guardian for them; sell the perishable “ property j rent out the house ; hire out the negroes, &c.; my “ son Charles I want Mrs. Stone to take charge of, and keep “him with her until he is old enough to put to school, as a “ child of her own.”
(Signed,) “ J. H. SPILLMAN.”
Attest, John Burdgess,
J. H. Sylvester,
Sarah A. Stone.
Enos Stone…
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