Jackson v. Bradshaw

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This is a suit against the appellee brought by Cynthia Jackson,-a married woman, with whom were joined the other appellants, who are her children, to recover damages for ousting them from certain premises which they averred were their homestead. The petition alleged that the husband, William Jackson, refused to join his wife in the suit. It appeared from the evidence that pending the marriage of William and Cynthia Jackson the husband bought the land from which it was alleged she and her children had been ousted, and gave a note with vendor’s lien for the purchase money…