Foreman v. Meroney
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Collin. Tried below before J. M. Pearson, Esq., Special Judge. The following statement of appellants’ counsel presents the case: This suit was brought by appellants against appellees for partition of land belonging to estate of D. C. Foreman.
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Appeal from Collin. Tried below before J. M. Pearson, Esq., Special Judge. The following statement of appellants’ counsel presents the case: This suit was brought by appellants against appellees for partition of land belonging to estate of D. C. Foreman. Appellee Lucetta Meroney claimed the right, as surviving wife of D. C. Foreman, to use and occupy the land as the homestead of herself and D. C. Foreman, and that it had been set apart to her by the county court of Collin county. Reply, abandonment, and that Mrs. Meroney had elected to no longer use and occupy the land as a homestead. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Delany, J. Com. App.
When D. C. Foreman died he left his wife Lucetta and seven children. Four of these were the children of his first marriage. Three of them were quite young, and the children of the second and surviving wife. The oldest of the children was a son, who seems not to have been a member of the family when the homestead was set apart to them. One of the elder daughters had died before that time; so that the family to whom the homestead was set apart consisted of the second wife Lucetta and her three minor children, together with two daughters of the first marriage. These two…
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