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37 Tex. 572

Bell v. Schwarz

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1873

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1873-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. Livingston Lindsay. This suit was brought by J. Gr. Bell and W. S. Wright, the appellants, as guardians of the minor children of Horace and Lucy Cross, deceased, to recover from the appellee one-half of the community homestead of Horace and Lucy Cross, sold to appellee by Horace Cross after the death of his wife.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1928

3 state decisions

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Decided 1873-07-01

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Walker, J.

¶1We have repeatedly of late held that on the death of a connubial partner, the interest of the deceased goes to the heir (in community property); but where the property is a homestead, it remains subject to the homestead right of the surviving partner. But where that is abandoned, the heir is entitled to partition. The case of Wright v. Hays, 34 Texas, 260, was a case where a title bond had been given before the death of the wife, and a right vested in the vendee under the *575bond, and it did not appear that the forty acres of land called for in the bond were community property.

¶2We do not think any of the cases referred to are in conflict with the rule which this court has laid down; and the case of Sossaman v. Powell, 21 Texas, 664, supports the opinion we have announced. The judgment of the District Court is reversed, and the cause remanded.

¶3Beversed and remanded.

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