In In the Estate of Nicholas, the temporary administrator of an estate and the decedent’s mother filed a Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 202 petition concerning a shootout at a residence by the City of Houston Police Department. No. 14-19-00716-CV, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 2532 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.]
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Court Held That Statutory Probate Court Had Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over Trust Dispute
By David Fowler Johnson on
Posted in Cases Decided, Texas Court of Appeals
In Barcroft v. Walton, a statutory probate court entered sanctions, struck a defendant’s pleadings, and entered a default judgment against a defendant in a trust case. No. 02-16-00110-CV, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 8541 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth September 7, 2017, no pet. history). The defendant appealed on multiple grounds, and…