Smith v. Ellis

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment rendered under Rule 166-A, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, that the plaintiff take nothing. Plaintiff’s suit was in the nature of a bill of review to set aside the adoption of two minor children by the defendants. The plaintiff is the mother of the minor children in question and is a resident of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Her husband is dead. The defendant Mildred Ellis is the stepdaughter of plaintiff and the half sister of the two children; Wiley Ellis is the husband of Mildred Ellis. Plaintiff alleged in her bill of…