Todd v. Shell Petroleum Corp.

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is a suit by the children of F. T. Todd to recover an undivided one-half interest in a 388-acre tract of land which they claim as the community interest of their deceased father, F. T. Todd. Upon an instructed verdict judgment was rendered for defendants. The defendants claim under a deed to J. F. Long, executed by Mrs. A. P. Todd, the surviving wife of F. T. Todd, dated March 30, 1910. Todd and wife were married in 1875. In 1883 Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, the mother of Mrs. Todd, conveyed the land to Mrs. Todd. In 1892 F. T. Todd died. Six months later Mrs. Todd was…