Gus I. Arnold v. Adele E. Leonard

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that the provisions of the 1917 and 1921 statutes declaring the rents and revenues from a wife’s separate real property to be her separate estate violate Article XVI, §15 and Article III, §35 of the Texas Constitution, rendering those provisions invalid, while affirming the validity of the statutes’ other provisions that exempt such rents from the husband’s debts. Accordingly, the injunction restraining the administrator from garnishing the wife’s rents was affirmed.