Hunt Co., TX - Dunkin Divorce April 4th 1901

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Hunt County, Texas, Court Minutes, Volume M, page 600:

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Mollie F. Dunkin -vs- H.S. Dunkin

April 4th 1901

On this day this cause being called came the plaintiff by attorneys and
announced ready for trial.  And it appearing to the court that the residence
of the defendant H.S. Dunkin is unknown, and that the said defendant has been
duly sited by publication in a news paper published in Hunt County Texas to
appear and answer in this behalf, and that such service and citation was
perfect to this term of the Court, and B.F. Vaughan, Esq. an attorney of this
Court having been appointed by the Court to represent the defendant, came also
and announced ready for trial, and the parties waive a jury and submit the
matters in controversy as well of fact as of law to the Court.  And the Court
having heard the pleadings of the parties, evidence adduced, argument of
counsel, and considering the law, finds for plaintiff.  It is therefore
considered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that the bonds of matrimony
existing between Mollie T. Dunkin, plaintiff, and H.S. Dunkin, the defendant,
be and the same are hereby dissolved.  It is further ordered, adjudged and
decreed by the Court that the custody and education of Rossie Dunkin, age 8
years, Mitchiner Dunkin, age 6 years, and Annie Dunkin, age 4 years, children
and issue of the marriage of the plaintiff and defendant, be and the same is
hereby awarded to plaintiff, Mollie T. Dunkin.  And it further appearing to
the court from the pleadings and the evidence that the following described lot
as parcel of land belongs to plaintiff and defendant, and is community
property, to wit: In City of Greenville, Hunt County Texas, and part of lot 4
in Block 4 of Jenkin’s property as shown by plot recorded in Probate Minutes C
page 364, Hunt County Texas.  Beginning on East side of Stonewall Street at a
point where the same



Continuing: Hunt County, Texas, Court Minutes, Volume M, page 601:



crossed the S.B. line of lot 5.  Thence South 114 13/100 feet to S.B. line of
lot 4.  Thence East about 75 feet to W.B. line of L.M. Brizendine survey.
Thence North with same 114 13/100 feet.  Thence West about 75 feet to
beginning.  And it further appearing that the custody and education of the
children of said marriage is herein awarded to plaintiff, it is therefore
further ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that all right title and
interest of the defendant H.S. Dunkin, in and to the above described property,
be and the same is hereby divested out of said defendant and is hereby vested
in said plaintiff.  And it is further ordered adjudged and decreed by by (sic)
the Court that the right of the sole use and enjoyment of said property and
the right to collect, receive use and enjoy the rents income, revenues and
profits of the same is hereby adjudged to said plaintiff, Mollie T. Dunkin,
and that the plaintiff recover of defendant all costs in this behalf incurred
for which she may have execution.