Majeski v. Estate of Majeski

OPINION

DAVID PURYEAR, Justice.

Geraldine Wesch is the daughter of the decedent, Sarah Bishop Majeski (“Bishop”), and appellant Bernard Majeski was Bishop’s husband for more than twenty years. After Bishop’s death, a dispute arose between Wesch, as administrator of Bishop’s estate, and Majeski. Both sought control of a tract of land owned by Bishop before her marriage and on which she and Majeski lived and worked. Majeski claimed a homestead right as Bishop’s surviving spouse, see Tex. Const, art. XVI, § 52, and Wesch argued that the rental of portions of the property defeated Maje-ski’s…