Mitchell v. Mitchell

GARRETT, Presiding Judge,

Section B. — This suit was brought by the appellee Margaret J. Mitchell, as plaintiff, against Elizabeth A. Mitchell and others, for the recovery of certain lots in the city of Galveston. Plaintiff claimed the property in controversy in her separate right; and the defense was, that it belonged to the community estate of the plaintiff and her deceased husband J. S. Mitchell, who left a will devising the same to the plaintiff on condition that she should accept it in lieu of all the rights she would have in his estate by the laws of Minnesota, where he died.

Trial was…