Lewis v. Lewis

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

We will refer to the parties as they were in the trial court.

The plaintiffs’ petition sought an accounting of the defendant, as well as partition of a section of land situated in Hemp-hill County, Texas. It was alleged that the defendant was named, appointed and qualified as the independent executrix of the will of W. W. Lewis, deceased, by the County Court of Hemphill County, but that the said estate was no longer subject to administration and the land aforesaid, which was devised by said will to the plaintiffs and the defendant, was now subject to partition and…