Connor v. Boyd

HALE, Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title and for partition, involving a house and lot situated in the City of Waco. J. N. Boyd and wife, Alberta Boyd, acquired the legal title to the lot by deed dated July 26, 1905 for a recited consideration of $100 cash, the execution of a note for $50, and the assumption of an outstanding indebtedness of $225. Shortly thereafter a house was constructed upon the lot and thereupon the premises became and continued to be the homestead of the family until the death of the survivor. J. N. Boyd died intestate in 1928, leaving his widow and their two…