Potier v. Cook

WILLIAMS, Justice.

P. Potier and Fannie Potier were married March 27, 1935. For years prior thereto and at the time of the marriage, P. Potier occupied as his homestead a 163-acre farm situated in Lamar County, Texas. The couple occupied the farm as a homestead from the date of marriage until their separation in the spring of 1937. P. Potier, who continued to live there alone after the separation, was found dead in his home November 24, 1938. His wife, who had lived elsewhere during this interval of twenty months, returned to and took possession of the farm on the day following his death. The…