Investors' Mortgage Security Co. v. Newton

This suit was brought by plaintiff in error against defendants in error, who are the surviving widow and children, respectively, of E. E. Newton, deceased, to establish an indebtedness and lien on a tract of land owned by said E. E. Newton at his death, and which was at the time of his death the homestead of said Newton and family, consisting of the said widow and children. The answer, in effect, was that said land was the homestead, that the estate of said Newton was insolvent, that said homestead had been set apart to defendants' in error as such, and that said lien was thereby discharged…