Newnom v. Hedeman
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Llano County; N. J. Stubbs, Judge. Proceedings between Mrs. May Newnom, surviving widow, and H. E. Hedeman and others to determine priority of claims against the estate of Geo. H. Newnom, deceased. From orders allowing certain sums to the widow but subordinating payment to the claims of mortgage creditors, she appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
This is a controversy between the appellant, the surviving widow of Geo. H. Newnom, deceased, who is executrix of his estate, on the one hand, and appellee and other mortgage creditors of said estate on the other, as to the priority of their claims against said estate over the allowances set apart to her in lieu of exemptions. The facts are substantially these: Prior to the marriage of appellant to said Newnom he had, while a single man, given a mortgage lien to appellee Hedeman to secure a note executed by him to said Hedeman on seven head of cattle, which was a valid, subsisting, and…
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