Blanchard v. Blanchard

TIREY, Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title. Appellee, the surviving widow of Richard Blanchard, brought the suit against her adult stepchildren born to her husband by a previous marriage, and she claimed the land and chattels in suit as her separate property. The children answered, and by cross action set up that the land was community and that it was subject to a lien in favor of the father’s separate estate, and sought an accounting with reference to the chattels allegedly taken over by the widow. The land was sold and the proceeds paid into the registry of the court to await…