Parker v. Chance
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Walker. The appellant, (who was plaintiff in the Court below,) alleges that she is a creditor of the estate of Edward Farris, dec’d, in the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars and interest, allowed by the administrator and approved by the Chief Justice.
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Appeal from Walker. The appellant, (who was plaintiff in the Court below,) alleges that she is a creditor of the estate of Edward Farris, dec’d, in the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars and interest, allowed by the administrator and approved by the Chief Justice. She further states, that on the 5th February, 1838, during the coverture of the said Farris and his wife Lucy, there was issued to the said Farris a certificate for a league and labor of land, and that in the said month and year the said Farris, in consideration that Francis Slauter would locate arid clear out said league of…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
The ground upon which the exception was sustained does not appear from the record. From the *516special cause of exception, that the land was the individual property of the defendant Lucy, and from the argument of counsel, it is to be inferred that in the opinion of the Court, the land was the separate property of the said defendant, and was therefore not to be classed among the effects of the deceased. The question then for decision is, whether the land belonged to the community existing between the deceased Farris and his wife, or to the wife exclusively in her separate right.
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