Case ID: tex_25/html/0270-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Roberts, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas Bateman v. Elizabeth Bateman.
    The increase during the marriage, of cattle and horses which were before marriage the wife’s separate property, belongs to the community.
    Error from Colorado. Tried below before the Hon. N. H. Hunger.
    Suit for divorce by Elizabeth Bateman against Thomas Bate-man, and for partition of their respective interests in the property owned by them. The divorce was decreed; the plaintiff proved that at the time of the marriage she owned certain cattle and a mare; that they had increased during the marriage, and were still possessed by them. The court decreed said separate property and its said increase to belong to the plaintiff in the division of the effects.
    
      John H. Robson, for the plaintiff in error.
    G. W. Smith, for the defendant in erroi-.
   Roberts, J.

The wife had separate property consisting in part of cattle and horses. The decree, of partition gives to her the increase, during the marriage, of the said cattle and horses as part of her separate estate. In this there was error as it has been determined by this court.

The other questions of the case are not of a character to require any discussion, being either matters of fact or rulings upon the evidence which may not arise upon another trial.

For this error the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.