Gulley v. Gulley
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District in an appeal from Panola County. Mrs. M. E. Gully, divorced wife of T. R. Gully, brought suit against him to recover for necessary expenses of maintenance of their children, of whom, by the decree of divorce she had been awarded the custody.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District in an appeal from Panola County. Mrs. M. E. Gully, divorced wife of T. R. Gully, brought suit against him to recover for necessary expenses of maintenance of their children, of whom, by the decree of divorce she had been awarded the custody. On defendant’s appeal the judgment in her favor was reversed and rendered for her for one half only of the expenditures in question (184 S. W., 555) and appellant defendant below, prosecuted writ of error to the Supreme Court, defendant in error making no complaint of the decree on appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
delivered, the opinion of the court.
By decree of the District Court of Panola County, entered in 1912, defendant in error, Mrs. M. E. Gully, was granted a divorce from plaintiff in error, T. R. Gully, and the custody of their seven minor children. The decree ordered partition of the community property, including 968-90/100 acres of land, a saw-mill, stocks of lumber and merchandise, fifty bales of cotton, etc., and set aside the homestead of 6-37/100 acres of land and certain appurtenant personality, for the use of defendant in error and her minor children, so long as any one of them was…
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