Casseday v. Norris

Citations

• 49 Tex. 613

Syllabus

<p>1. Administrator’s sale to ray expenses—Locative interest.—A sale by an administrator of a tract of land for the purpose of paying the expense of locating lands of the estate, the expenses being considered as one-third in value of the land so located, is not void, in a collateral attack, as a mode of making partition of the land, and giving the locator his one-third interest.</p> <p>2. United States marshal’s sales of land.—Sales.of land made by the United States marshal, under execution, must be made in the county where the land is situated.</p> <p>3. Same.—A marshal’s sale of land, part of which was in McLennan county, made at the court-house of Bell county, held void as to that part lying out of Bell county.</p>