Leath v. Leath
Leath v. Leath
Opinion of the Court
Plaintiffs, the children of J. O. Leath and his deceased wife, Mrs. Nannie Leath, instituted this suit against their father for a partition of property belonging to the community estate of their father and mother. From a judgment in favor of plaintiffs the defendant has appealed.
In their petition plaintiffs alleged that while their mother was on her death bed and a few days before her death the defendant, knowing that she was about to die, sold a tract of land belonging to the community estate far below its market value, for the fraudulent purpose of thereby cheating plaintiffs out of the rights in said property which plaintiffs would soon inherit from their mother. The amount so sacrificed by said sale was alleged and plaintiffs prayed that defendant be held to an accounting therefor in the partition of the estate so sought.
Furthermore, in answer to special issue, the jury found in plaintiffs’ favor on that issue of fraudulent sale; also that Mrs. Nannie Leath was insane at the time she joined with her husband in the conveyance. And the trial judge further found, in effect, that defendant sold the property for $1,995 less than its market value.
The judgment is affirmed.
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