Whiteman v. Burkey

The certificate of the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals is as follows:

“This is a suit for an accounting and for partition brought by appellants against the appellees.

“The plaintiffs are the children' of the defendant, Fred J. Burkey, and his deceased wife, and sue for recovery of one-half of the community estate of their father and their deceased mother.

“A portion of the property sought to be partitioned is a lot with improvements thereon, situated in the City of Houston, which was the homestead of defendant and his wife at the time of her death in 1921, and is now occupied and claimed by…