Webster v. Clarke
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Cherokee County. Webster sued Clarke, and had judgment, from which defendant appealed, and the judgment was reversed and rendered for appellee. Plaintiff (appellee) then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate-Justice.
This action was brought by plaintiff in error against defendant in error, as executrix of and devisee under the will of Lemuel B. Clarke, to subject certain lands in Cherokee and Polk Counties of this State, received by the defendant as such devisee, to the payment of a judgment recovered by plaintiff, against the defendant as executrix. It appears from the record that both of the parties are and have been citizens of New York, and that Lemuel B. Clarke, who was also a citizen of that State, died in 1886, leaving a will by which he appointed the defendant as his…
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