Hicks v. Oliver

Citations

• 71 Tex. 776
• 10 S.W. 97
• 1888 Tex. LEXIS 1225

Syllabus

<p>1. Bond—Estates of Decedents.—An appeal bond executed on appeal from the county to the district court, to correct an error claimed to exist in the order of the county court, pertaining to the administration of an estate, is sufficient, if in other respects formal, when it identifies the order appealed from.</p> <p>2. Same.—An appeal bond executed on appeal from an order of the county court in a matter relating to the estate of a decedent, is not invalid because it fixes a specific sum to be recovered if the appellant fails to prosecute his appeal to effect. If insufficient in amount that fact may constitute cause for an order requiring a new bond. The act of 1848 required that on such appeals the amount of the bond should be fixed by the chief justice. That requirement is omitted in the existing law.</p>