Edwards v. Brown

On Motion for Rehearing.

Gaines, Associate Justice.

An able and elaborate argument has been filed in behalf of the motion for rehearing in this case. The questions involved are important, and we deem it proper, therefore, to discuss briefly the points we are asked to reconsider.

It is insisted, in the first place, that the court is in error in treating the title of Mrs. Brown to one-half of the community land held in the name of her divorced husband, as an equitable and not a legal estate. In support of this we are cited to the third section of the act of 1848 (Paschal’s Digest, art. 4642),…