Hill v. Smith

BOND, Chief Justice.

This appeal regularly proceeds from a judgment of a district court of Dallas County in pursuance of an instructed verdict. Appellant claimed to have been the common-law wife of Andrew Stevenson, deceased, at the time of his death- — hence, as such, entitled to share in his estate; and, by virtue of being his surviving wife, he having died intestate without issue, and the property in suit having been acquired by him during their marriage, she inherited the whole of the property to the exclusion of appellees, sister of the deceased.

Against the action of the court below, in…