Greer v. Hatter

BOLIN, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this suit seeking a partition by licitation of property he claimed to own in indivisión with the defendants. After suit was filed, A. B. Greer died and his heirs were substituted as party plaintiffs. The pertinent facts are as follows:

Reverend Wake Hatter married Mattie Williams in 1873 and seven children were born of this marriage. Mattie died in 1895 and about a year later Hatter married Sarah Stewart. Sarah had previously contracted a marriage with another man in 1884 and he had deserted her some time around 1888.

In 1910, during his marriage to Sarah Stewart,…