Case Name: JACKSON et al. v. SLAUGHTER et al.
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1944-12-20
Citations: 185 S.W.2d 764
Docket Number: No. 6143
Parties: JACKSON et al. v. SLAUGHTER et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 185
Pages: 764–764

Head Matter:
JACKSON et al. v. SLAUGHTER et al.
No. 6143.
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Texarkana.
Dec. 20, 1944.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 25, 1945.
Stewart, Burgess & Morris and W. Car-loss Morris, Jr., all of Houston, P. O. Lopp, of Dallas, and C. W. Vickery, of Quitman, for appellants.
Robert F. Higgins and Dillard Baker, both of Houston, Jones & Jones, of Mine-óla, PI. P. Smead, Bramlette, Levy, Gibson & Bolton, McLemore & McLemore, and R. L. Whitehead, all of Longview, and Lasseter, Simpson, Spruiell & Lowry, Oran Lowry, and Weeks, Hankerson & Surles, all of Tyler, for appellees.

Opinion:
HALL, Chief Justice.
This cause grows out of the same transaction as No. 6142, Styled Thelma Cooper Jackson et vir. v. E. M. Slaughter et al., Tex.Civ.App., 185 S.W.2d 759.
The parties are the same, except that in this action H. Grady Cooper, a person of unsound mind, appears by next friend. The evidence and rules of law governing the disposition of the two cases are identical. Therefore the opinion in cause No. 6142 is here adopted as the opinion in this cause as controlling the disposition of all the issues here raised.
It appears from the record that the plaintiff below, IT. Grady Cooper, a person of unsound mind, was entitled to a one-twentieth (⅛) interest in the surface estate of the land described in the judgment, in this case, through inheritance from his father, Jerry Cooper, plus a one-sixtieth (%o) interest through his deceased uncle, Looney Cooper. Due to a seeming inadvertence in the drafting of the judgment, this interest was not awarded to him. The judgment of the trial court is reformed in this regard so as to award such ½5 interest (½0 plus ⅜0) to him, and as reformed, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
It is ordered that appellants pay one-half of all costs incurred herein and the appel-.lees, Paul Bramlette, Administrator, Joseph. D. and Nellie M. Bramlette, Anna Belch-er, and Isadore Maritzky he taxed with one-half the costs in proportion to their respective interests.