Barnes v. Thompson

Plaintiff seeks to be recognized as the owner of a one-half interest in a certain piece of real property and a mercantile' business conducted therein, upon the ground that same were the separate and paraphernal property of her sister, who was also the wife of defendant. The other half, she alleges, belongs to the children of another deceased sister. On the other hand, defendant claims the whole of the property belonged to the matrimonial community existing between him and his late wife, and, therefore, that he owns one-half in his own right, the other half having been inherited by him in…