Nolte v. Meyer

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants, who claimed to be beneficiaries thereunder, in behalf of themselves and other alleged beneficiaries, to have trustees appointed and an interpretation of an instrument reading as follows:

*355“ The State of Texas, Washington County.—Know all men by these presents, that whereas the German citizens comprising the neighborhood six miles west of Brenham, in the east edge of the Labadé Prairie, Washington County, wishing to establish a permanent school, to be known as the Harrisburg Academy, that I, W. T. Bush, of the aforesaid State and…