Harper v. Harper

Wyatt, Justice.

The plaintiff in error demurred to the defendant’s answer, and duly preserved her exceptions pendente lite to the judgment overruling the demurrer, and makes this judgment the basis of an assignment of error in her bill of exceptions. The legal question raised by the demurrer is the same as that made in the general grounds of the motion for new trial, and therefore both will be discussed together.

The evidence disclosed that the parties had lived together as husband and wife on the property in controversy for approximately thirty-five years. The property was inherited by the…