Blake v. Fuller

BOND, Chief Justice.

The facts in this case are undisputed; the only question for decision is the validity of an administration sale of 91 undivided acres of land in a tract of 160 acres, without first having the probate court segregate and designate the homestead for the surviving widow and children of Lincoln Kennedy, deceased.

In 1936 Lincoln Kennedy died intestate, leaving surviving his wife, Texana Kennedy, and a number of children and grandchildren, named in plaintiff’s petition, as his sole and only heirs at law; and an estate of 291 acres of land in Van Zandt County, Texas. For more…