Fullerton v. Doyle
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. Henry J. Jewett. This suit was commenced September 6th, 1852, by the ap pellant against her husband, for a divorce on the ground of de sertion. In the petition, she described the land in controversy, alleged that it was common property, and prayed that one half of it should be vested in herself and the other half in her three minor children who were made defendants.
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Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. Henry J. Jewett. This suit was commenced September 6th, 1852, by the ap pellant against her husband, for a divorce on the ground of de sertion. In the petition, she described the land in controversy, alleged that it was common property, and prayed that one half of it should be vested in herself and the other half in her three minor children who were made defendants. An amendment to the petition, filed February 12th, 1853, but which had been sworn to by the plaintiff October 27th, 1852, alleged that since the commencement of the suit, John W. P.…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, C J.
To recapitulate the pleadings, or comment upon the anomalies and contradictory phases assumed by the parties, would be as irksome as unprofitable.
Without this waste of time and effort, we will proceed to state the most material facts, as adduced in evidence, and adjudge the law of the case as it arises on those facts.
These show that that the plaintiff was, in 1850, abandoned by her husband, who was last heard of in California ; that she received no support from him for herself and three children, and had no separate property ; and there was no property of any kind belonging to…
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