Lumpkin v. Nicholson

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The forty acres of land involved in this contention, situated in Bosque County, Texas, was the homestead of R. L. Nicholson, who died therein in March, 1884. He had resided there with his family continuously for about twelve years next before that date. His relict, Mrs. B. Nicholson, and their children, appellees herein, continued to reside upon the land for a few months thereafter, when they moved to the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, where they have resided ever since.

A short time prior to his death, Ií. L. Nicholson established, in accordance with the laws…