McClanahan v. McClanahan

LESTER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in Dallas County for divorce, partition of community property and for attorney’s fees, by appellant, Katie McClanahan, against Preston Mc-Clanahan. Appellee filed his plea in abatement, alleging that the trial court did not have jurisdiction of the matter in controversy in that plaintiff and defendant had lived together as man and wife for many years at Vernon in Wilbarger County, Texas; that on or about January 21, 1946, they moved from Wilbarger County to Hutchinson County, Texas, where they resided as man and wife and cohabited together, and…