Court Opinion

ID: 9831705
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:18:34.006078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:37.213299
License: Public Domain

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.