Logan v. Logan

The plaintiff in the lower court, E. V. Logan, brought this suit against his step-mother, Mrs. Ida Logan, to establish a partnership trust in one-half of all the property left by his deceased father, Eugene Logan. A judgment for plaintiff was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals at Amarillo (131 S. W. (2d) 1048), and defendant, Mrs. Ida Logan, sued out a writ of error.

According to the evidence and the findings of the jury, in about the year 1888 Eugene Logan left his first wife and family in Young County and went West, finally settling in Dalhart sometime before 1902. In that year (1902)…