Lumpkin v. Smyth

Citations

• 57 Tex. 489
• 1882 Tex. LEXIS 172

Syllabus

<p>1. Appeal from probate to district court.— Under the probate acts of the fifteenth legislature (August 9 and 18, 1876), a bond was required as u prerequisite to an appeal from the county to the district court in cases pertaining to estates of deceased persons.</p> <p>2. Same.—An application for the probate of a will was resisted in the- county court by a guardian of the estate of certain minors; being unsuccessful, appeal was taken to the district court July, 1879. Held, a motion to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction, resulting from the absence of an appeal bond, should have been sustained.</p>