Case ID: willson_3/html/0394-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

St. Louis, I. M. & S. R’y Co. v. Elias Jackson.
    (No. 2618.)
    November 9, 1887.
    Appeal from Bowie County.
    Todd & Hudgins, counsel for appellant.
    Vaughan & Leary, counsel for appellee.
   Opinion by

Willson, J.

§ 327. Minor may sue by next friend, when. Elias Jackson, a minor, brought and prosecuted this suit by his next friend. Said minor had no guardian in this state, but had a mother and step-father residing in the state of Arkansas. Held: It is well settled that a minor who has no guardian may, in this state, maintain a suit by his next friend. (Hays v. Hays, 66 Tex. 606; R’y Co. v. Styron, id. 421.) The fact that Jackson had a natural guardian residing in another state did not deprive him of the right to maintain this suit by his next friend.

Affirmed.