Hodge v. Hicks

ICRAMER, Justice.

This suit was for partition of real estate, and for accounting of rents. It was brought by Katie Hodge, joined by 'her husband, claiming that she is the sole heir of Jim Jefferson and the legitimate daughter of a valid -common law marriage between Jim- Jefferson and Isabella Jefferson, deceased. Suit was against Manathis Hicks, 'Charlie Hicks, Johnell Hawkins Glenn, and Bennie Hawkins, children and grandchildren of Leila Jefferson, deceased wife, (by a ceremonial marriage entered into after his separation from Isabella), of Jim Jefferson. The property involved was acquired in…