Schwalbe v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““I find that B. K. Cooper, acting under this appointment of the Probate Court of Coryell County, Texas, took charge of said estate and administered the same under the directions of the -County Court, paying the debts and claims against said estate as set out in his final report which is the subject of this contest. “I find that there were numerous debts against said estate and that in order to pay the same it became necessary for the administrator to apply to the County Court of Coryell County for an order to sell the real estate belonging to said estate and to obtain funds with which to pay off the indebtedness against the property belonging to said estate, and that he did, on May 27th, 1949, in the manner provided by law sell the real estate belonging to said estate to Mary Louise Schwalbe, for the sum of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars. “I further find that on the 18th of December, 1948, Frank Schofield, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Texas, and as the duly authorized agent for the United States Government, filed with the administrator and in the County Court of Coryell County, Texas, a claim for taxes due by the estate of Bertye Key, deceased, the account for such taxes being duly itemized and aggregating a total sum, at the time of filing thereof, of $8,856.39, and providing for interest and penalties, said account being in all things in due form and duly sworn to, and I find that the filing of said account established a debt and lien against the en”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cooper v. Schwalbe