Slator v. Neal

Watts, J. Com. App.

While the appellee was confined in the penitentiary under a conviction for a felony, his wife sold to the appellant between fifteen and twenty head of cattle, the community property of appellee and his wife. Having served some twenty-two months of bis term, appellee was pardoned, returned home and instituted this suit to recover the cattle and their increase. While the pleadings are quite meager, still, from the findings of the court and the evidence adduced, it seems that the recovery was had upon the *223ground that there was no necessity for the wife’s making the sale; hence…