Ellis v. Patrick

ALEXANDER, Justice.

C. M. Ellis died intestate in 1924, leaving surviving him his second 'wife, Mrs. Ora Ellis, and five minor children by her, and four adult children by a former marriage. At the time of his death he and his fámily occupied as a homestead 160 acres of land in Navarro county belonging to the community estate of himself and his second wife. His widow later married J. J. Patrick and she and her husband brought this suit in December, 1932, against three of the adult children by said first marriage to recover possession of a part of said tract of land. The defendants by way of…