Cockrill v. Cox
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Fayette. Tried below before the Hon. H. Teichmueller. On June 19, 1884, S. B. Moore and M. Cockrill filed, in the county court of Fayette county, their petition for the probate of the last will and testament of Rhoda Byler, deceased, and for letters testamentary.
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Appeal from Fayette. Tried below before the Hon. H. Teichmueller. On June 19, 1884, S. B. Moore and M. Cockrill filed, in the county court of Fayette county, their petition for the probate of the last will and testament of Rhoda Byler, deceased, and for letters testamentary. The petition, after stating jurisdictional facts, alleged that the decedent left a large estate, real and personal, of the probable value of $35,-000, and also a last will, in which petitioners were named executors, and prayed that the will be admitted to probate, and that letters testamentary be granted the petitioners.…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson, Associate Justice.
All the constitutions of the Republic and State of Texas have preserved the right of trial by jury, in the same language. Const. of Republic, 9th clause of Declaration of Rights ; Const, of 1845, sec. 12, art. 1; Const, of 1866, sec. 12, art. 1; Const, of 1869, sec. 12, art. 1; Const, of 1876, see. 15, art. 1.
In the Constitution of 1845, the provision that this right should “remain inviolate,” was deemed a sufficient security of it in all cases in the district court, except causes in equity, for which a special clause was introduced. Sec. 8, art. 4.
The act of 1848…
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