Clift v. Clift
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Ellis. Tried below before Hon. Anson Rainey. This was a proceeding to settle and determine the respective interests of the widow and children—children of two marriages—of S. A. Clift, in the real estate in Waxahachie, Texas, which was declared, in Clift v. Kaufman & Runge, 60 Texas, 64, to be exempt property, and was after-wards set apart to the widow and children as such.
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Appeal from Ellis. Tried below before Hon. Anson Rainey. This was a proceeding to settle and determine the respective interests of the widow and children—children of two marriages—of S. A. Clift, in the real estate in Waxahachie, Texas, which was declared, in Clift v. Kaufman & Runge, 60 Texas, 64, to be exempt property, and was after-wards set apart to the widow and children as such. The property had ceased to be used for homestead purposes, and this was a suit by the widow and her children against the children of the first marriage of S. A. Clift for partition of the property and for an…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
Stephen A. Clift married in the year 1859. In February, 1871, the wife of that marriage died, leaving three children, who are the appellants in this court. In the latter part of the year 1871 he married a second wife, the appellee Leonora Clift, and died in 1882, leaving four children of the second marriage. At the time of the death of the first wife there were certain lots in the then town of Waxahachie upon which he resided with his family and did business as a merchant. He continued in the occupation and use of these lots until his death. Some of the lots were of…
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