Lawson v. Lawson

GILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted on the 27th day of August, 1900, by the plaintiff, Caroline Lawson, against the defendant, Harry Lawson, for divorce and partition of community property. Virginia Walker Lawson and her four minor children were made parties defendant as claimants of the property in controversy. In respect to the property, plaintiff pleaded in the alternative that if the court should hold she was not the lawful wife of Harry Lawson, then an undivided half interest therein should nevertheless be adjudged to her because the property was acquired by the joint labors…