In Re Faulkner's Estate

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J. '

This is an appeal from a. judgment distributing the estate of the decedent among the widow and children. The trial judge held it to be community property, and distributed it as such. Appellants, children of a former marriage, contend that it is separate property. Counsel agree that this is the only question for decision.

The trial court found that the decedent came to New Mexico in 1907 with his wife, the appellee, and children, having purchased a farm near Dexter for about $20,000, the proceeds of separate property owned by him in Illinois; that this farm was…