The issue as to the emancipation of the children does not properly belong in this case, for the reason that the cattle were not acquired by them by reason of labor and services, but by gift, but we believe it best to submit some law to the court bearing on the subject. Woods v. James (Cal.), 114 P. 587; Mathias v. Tingey (Utah), 118 P. 781; Officer v. Swindlehurse (Mont.), 108 P. 583; Frauenthal v. Bank of El Paso (Ark.), 44 A.L.R. 871; 46 C.J. 1285; Burdsall v. Waggoner, 4 Colo. 261; Wheeler v. St. J. W.R. Co., supra; Revel v. Pruitt (Okla.), 142 P. 1020; Mathews v. Fields, 77 S.E. 11; Sweet v. Crane (Okla.), 134 P. 1112. The recordation of the JHG brand and the awarding thereof by the state board of stock commissioners constitute prima-facie evidence of ownership.
"It is a well-established principle of pleading that there need be no direct allegation of a fact if the same otherwise sufficiently appears, or of a fact which is necessarily implied from other averments in the petition." Revel v. Pruitt, 42 Okla. 696, 142 P. 1019. "Pleadings attacked by demurrer should be liberally construed in favor of the pleader where material allegations are merely defectively stated and not entirely omitted."
" In the case of Revel v. Pruitt, 42 Okla. 696, 142 P. 1019, it is said: "It is a well-established principle of pleading that there need be no direct allegation of a fact if the same otherwise sufficiently appears, or of a fact which is necessarily implied from other averments in the petition."