Blackmon v. Parker

OPINION

OSBORN, Justice.

This case involves a Declaratory Judgment in which the trial Court held that Appellee owns a fee simple absolute to certain land and improvements located thereon in the City of El Paso. We affirm. The parties will be-referred to as they appeared in the trial Court.

*812In about 1942, Mrs. Cathalene Blackmon, the mother of the Defendants, James and Jack Blackmon, purchased a home at 3222 Hamilton, El Paso, Texas. Approximately a year later, she married the Plaintiff, Gaines Franklin Parker. The family lived in this house until her death in 1958. During that time, the mortgage…