Trammell v. Trammell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Gonzales. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. In February, 1844, Philip Trammell departed this life, domiciled in the State of Arkansas, leaving no widow, and but one child, Nicholas, then eight or ten years of age, to whom he willed the whole of his estate.
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Appeal from Gonzales. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. In February, 1844, Philip Trammell departed this life, domiciled in the State of Arkansas, leaving no widow, and but one child, Nicholas, then eight or ten years of age, to whom he willed the whole of his estate. The will directed that the farm and negroes of the testator should be kept together, and the proceeds, after paying for the education of his son, and his necessary expenses, to be invested in negroes and other real estate for his son, until the latter should arrive at the age of twenty-one years. The testator appointed…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The plaintiffs having recovered in the action, the ruling of the Court upon the motion to quash the writ of sequestration'has become immaterial, as respects the merits of this appeal, and does not therefore require revision. (Cheatham v. Riddle, 8 Tex. R. 162.)
It is a sufficient answer to the objection now urged to the legal sufficiency of the petition, in that it does not distinctly aver that the domicil of Philip Trammell was in the State of Arkansas at the time of his death, that the objection was not taken in the Court below, where, had it been taken, it might have been immediately…
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