Higgins v. Higgins

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Ella Grace Higgins obtained a divorce from George W. Higgins, Jr. Mrs. Higgins has appealed from the part of the judgment dividing their property. The division was based on some findings of a jury, but notwithstanding its answers to issues 6 and 8.

The jury found (1) that the parents of George W. Higgins, Jr., on July 21, 1964, gave him $71,200.00; (2) that George W. Higgins, Jr., paid $70,000.00 thereof on the purchase price of the Thornberg Ranch; that (3) the interest in a tract of land which he sold for $20,000.00 was inherited from his mother; that (4) he paid this…