Chandler v. Hartt

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This is a partition suit. Appellants were plaintiffs and appellees were defendants in the trial court. (The parties will be referred to as they were designated in the trial court.) Plaintiffs’ petition asked the court to partition 210.4 acres of land, more or less, in Houston County, Texas, consisting of 4 adjacent tracts. The lands described in the petition were acquired by W. W. Wills, Sr., the common source for the title, in 1888, during his marriage to ap-pellees’ grandmother, Maude Wills. W. W. Wills died on October 5, 1906, intestate, after having been married…