Lee v. Honea

RENFRO, Justice.

This is a partition suit wherein the principal controversy concerns the proceeds from a house fire insurance policy.

J. A. Honea is appellee and his stepchildren are appellants.

Mary Honea, mother of appellants, married appellee in 1925. The Honeas thereafter acquired a homestead consisting of a small tract of land and a house situated thereon in Granbury. Mrs. Honea died intestate in 1941. When she died the title to the land passed by inheritance to her heirs at law. As one of such heirs appellee acquired, in addition to his undivided one-half interest, a homestead estate in…