Fowlkes v. Fowlkes

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

Max Fowlkes, George Fowlkes and Ed Fowlkes, brothers of Abner Winfred Fowlkes, deceased, brought this suit to restrain Mrs. Eva Norton Fowlkes, the surviving widow of the said Abner Winfred Fowlkes, and Roy Hewett, an undertaker, from disinterring and removing the body of the deceased from the Andrews Chapel Cemetery in Lavaca County, Texas, to the Montgomery Cemetery, in Montgomery County, Texas.

A temporary writ of injunction was granted and issued on April 1, 1938, and upon final trial before the court, on October 13, 1938, judgment was rendered in favor of appellees…