Collins v. Hall

Mr. Judge Taylor,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

This suit arose out of a controversy between the four children of Mrs. Lillie Halford who died intestate in 1935. The controversy concerns 800 acres of land in Wilbarger County, which juries have twice found, in effect, to be the joint inheritance of the children from Mrs. Halford, their widowed mother. The litigants, the four children, are Mrs. Nannie Mae Collins, a widow, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hall (married to W. M. Hall, a pro forma party), J. B. (Johnnie) Halford and S. B. (Britt) Halford. The mother about…