Legal Opinion

Burns v. Burns

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided March 10, 1910PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Fannin County. Tried below before Hon. Ben H. Denton.

1Opinion of the Court

LEVY, Associate Justice.

The suit was by the wife against the husband, for divorce, on the ground of cruel treatment in abandoning her in her incurable ill health without cause, and refusing to care for her or contribute in any way to her support and maintenance, and in the alternative, if divorce be denied, for a decree enjoining her husband from exercising control over her separate property of 113 acres of land, upon the ground that the income therefrom was the only means of support left her, and the husband was interfering with her support therefrom and claiming and threatening to apply all…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Dority v. DorityTexas Supreme Court · 1903

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. McCotter v. CarleCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1927
  2. Pelham v. SandersCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1956
  3. Ledbetter v. LedbetterCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1921
  4. Rockhold v. Lucky Tiger Oil Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1927
  5. Nixon v. NixonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1961

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