Lewis v. Sellick

Acker, Judge.

Appellees brought this suit originally for the recovery of an undivided half interest in three sections of land in Uvalde county, and for partition with appellant, who was admitted to be the owner of the other half interest. Appellee, Hannah L. Sellick, claimed the land by inheritance from her deceased husband, James Howison, through a child that survived him, but now deceased.

By amended pleading, appellees set up the homestead estate of two hundred acres of Mrs. Sellick in section number 126 of the land, and prayed that it be set apart to her, with the improvements thereon, in…