Porterfield v. Parker

ODOM, Justice.

Plaintiffs appealed from a judgment dismissing their suit on exception of no cause of action.

They allege that they are children and sole heirs of their mother, Mrs. Margaret Porterfield Hinson; that their father, Joseph Porterfield, died “many years ago,” that their mother married William T. Hinson in 1879, and that there were no children of. that marriage; that, in the year 1889, their mother and their stepfather acquired by homestead a forty-acre tract of land, which was sold by their stepfather on April 18, 1891, while their mother was living; and that the deed was not…