Hodge v. Donald
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Denton. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Lindsay. Suit by Louisa P. Hodges and others, as the heirs of Wm. B. Haws and his wife, Catharine Haws, brought in May, 1871, to recover their mother’s community interest in land.
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Appeal from Denton. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Lindsay. Suit by Louisa P. Hodges and others, as the heirs of Wm. B. Haws and his wife, Catharine Haws, brought in May, 1871, to recover their mother’s community interest in land. The petition alleged that W. B. Haws and his wife Catharine emigrated in 1845 to the state of Texas and settled, within the limits of the colony granted by the republic to W. S. Peters and others; that they brought into the colony four children, who are plaintiffs, and who settled and remained in the colony upon a tract of" land described, containing one hundred…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The only point presented for our decision in this case is this: Did the court below err in sustaining the demurrer of defendant M. B. Donald to the petition of plaintiffs Louisa J. Hodges et al., and in dismissing the same?
This depends upon the question whether the land in controversy was the separate property of the surviving husband, William B. Haws, or the community property of himself and his deceased wife, Catharine Haws.
*349The policy of Texas has ever been to induce by grants of land, both married and single men to immigrate and become citizens. In consonance with…
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