Case ID: tex_33/html/0598-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Walker, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jones’s Administrators v. D. H. Hughes and others.
    1. The act of 1866, providing for appeals from justices’courts to the district, courts, does not repeal Article 1503 of Paschal’s Digest, by which executors and administrators are exonerated from giving cost and appeal bonds. The requirement of the act of 1866, that a bond shall be given, etc., is fully satisfied by the bond given by executors and administrators for the execution of their trusts.
    Appeal from Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. Samuel L. Earle.
    The facts are sufficiently indicated in the opinion of the court.
    
      JR. S. Walker, for the appellants.
    No brief for the appellees.
   Walker, J.

The district'court erred in dismissing the appeal taken in this case from a justice’s court..

Executors and administrators of deceased persons’ estates shall not be ruled to give security for. costs in any suit to recover money due or property belonging to the estate, and no security shall be exacted of executors or administrators of deceased persons’ estates in appeals taken in suing- for such money or property, or in defending suits brought against such estates for money or property.” (Paschal’s Digest, Art. 1508.)

The uniform ruling of this court has been in accordance with this provision of the law, and the act of 1866, providing for appeals to the district court, does not change the rule. The act was intended to give effect to the constitutional provision for appeals as provided in the Constitution of 1866, and does not differ in any material respect from prior existing laws. The requirement of the act that a bond shall be given, etc., is fully met in the case of administrators and executors, by the bond which they give to the State before entering upon their trust, as this bond covers all liabilities legitimately incurred in the execution of the trust. The judgment of the district court dismissing the appeal is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings in said court.

Reversed and remanded.