HILLEY v. HILLEY

No. 3602.

327 S.W.2d 467 (1959)

Pearl HILLEY, Appellant, v. Garland HILLEY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied October 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dunnam & Dunnam, Waco, for appellant.

Beard, Kultgen & Beard, Waco, for appellee.


WILSON, Justice.

This case presents the pure law question of whether securities issued to husband and wife "as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common," purchased with community funds, constitute community property upon the husband's death, or the separate property of the surviving widow.

Appellee, son of the deceased husband by a former marriage, obtained a declaratory judgment that...

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