Gadd v. Lynch

POPE, Justice.

This is a partition suit. Since no statement of facts has been brought forward, but full findings of fact were made by the trial court in the judgment, our problem is to examine the legal consequences of an unchallenged state of facts. Apart from some procedural matters, which we shall discuss, the basic question presented by this appeal concerns the rights of pretermitted children born out of wedlock, but recognized by a father who later married the mother. An interpretation of Arts. 2581 and 8292, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats., becomes necessary.

J. E. Keller and Josefa Abrego became…