Commerce Farm Credit Co. v. Sales

Defendants in error, Daniel 5. Sales and wife, instituted this suit in the district court of Lamar county, seeking cancellation of deeds-of trust executed by them on October 28, 1919, on 180 acres of land situated in said county, to secure indebtedness evidenced by their notes, alleging that the deeds of trust were void, for the reason that the land was part of their homestead, at the time they were executed. Plaintiffs in error resisted the suit to cancel, insisting that the *803land was not tie homestead of Sales and' wife as claimed, and sought judgment for the indebtedness and foreclosure of…