Spencer v. Pettit

J. H. Pettit and Amanda Elizabeth Pettit had nine children when on April 1, 1910, the mother died. At the time of her death the Pettits owned considerable property, both personal and real, in Lubbock county, where the husband was engaged in the ranching business. Amanda Pettit died intestate and there was no administration whatever upon her estate. J. H. Pettit married again. From and after the death of his first wife he continued the ranch business as it had been conducted before her death, without making any sort of partition of the property with his children. This suit was instituted by…