Ezell v. Dodson

Citations

• 60 Tex. 331
• 1883 Tex. LEXIS 331

Syllabus

<p>1, Parties — Husband and wife.—A mere separation of the husband and wife, and his refusal to join her in the action, is not sufficient to authorize the wife to prosecute alone a suit to recover damages for an assault and battery committed upon her during coverture.</p> <p>2. Separate property.—No property acquired by the wife during coverture becomes her separate estate except such as is derived by gift, devise or descent; all acquired in any other manner is community property.</p> <p>8. Parties.—The exceptional cases in which the wife has been allowed to maintain an action for the community estate have been where she had been abandoned by her husband and was destitute of the means of support, unless she resorted to the community property.</p>