Mathews v. Mathews

WOODRUFF, Justice.

This suit was originally filed by appellee, Marion Mathews, in 1954 against appellant, Lenora Mathews, seeking a divorce and a division of community property. Appellant answered by cross-acting for divorce, and alleging there was no community property. Upon a hearing on the merits, the District Court granted appellant a divorce on her cross-action, declared the real property known as Lots 8 and 9, Block 50 of Houston Heights Addition, which incidentally is the subject of the dispute here, to be their community property and awarded each an undivided one-half interest therein.…