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RAGLAND v. RAGLAND

No. 10-87-062-CV.

743 S.W.2d 758 (1987)

Lee Ann Vargas RAGLAND, Appellant, v. Jerry Cline RAGLAND, Administrator of the Estate of Stephen Blake Ragland, and Individually, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Waco.

December 31, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig S. Lundquist, Staff Counsel for Inmates, Huntsville, for appellant.

Tim Rudolph, Glen Rose, for appellees.

OPINION

THOMAS, Justice.

The constitutional county court of Somervell County imposed a constructive trust on the funds in a profit-sharing plan to prevent a common-law wife from unjustly enriching herself by murdering her husband. The judgment will be reversed because only a statutory probate court or a district court can impose a constructive trust.

Lee Ann Ragland was convicted of murdering her common-law husband, Stephen Ragland, and sentenced...

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