Cheney v. Cheney

This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiffs in a suit to establish and enforce a contract by Manton Cheney to make a will of his estate to two infant girls, Betty June and Virginia Kimrey; they being now known by the surname of Cheney.

The father of these children abandoned them before the birth of the later, and in February, 1929, when they were one and a half and three years of age, respectively, they were abandoned by their mother in Tarrant county. They were taken in charge by the juvenile officers and a dependency case made concerning them in the Forty-Eighth district court, Judge…