Legal Opinion
Long v. Knox
Texas Supreme Court
Decided March 7, 1956No. A-5297PublishedCited by 194 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Culver
This suit was brought by petitioner, Betty Knox Long, as .the child and sole heir of W. C. Knox and as administratrix of *583his estate in form of trespass to try title seeking to establish that certain oil properties standing in the name of respondent, Harryett H. Knox, surviving wife of W. C. Knox, were in fact community property of Knox and wife rather than the separate property of the wife.
W. C. Knox and Harryett H. Knox were married in 1929. Each had children by former marriages, but none of this union. In 1940 and 1941 there were conveyed to Mrs. Knox as her separate property and estate oil…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Permian Oil Co. v. SmithTexas Supreme Court · 1937
- Knox v. LongTexas Supreme Court · 1953
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