Bumpass v. Johnson

This ease involves the determination of the question whether or not Carrie Nelson Johnson, the surviving widow of J. R. Nelson, deceased, elected to take under the terms of the will of her deceased husband rather than to claim her community rights in his property. The action was one to recover certain lands, instituted by Carrie Nelson Johnson and others against Ed. R. Bumpass and otherjs, and, from an instructed verdict for the defendants upon their cross-action to quiet the title, an appeal was prosecuted, and the Court of Civil Appeals reversed the cause and remanded it for a new trial,…