Achilles v. Willis & Bro.

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This action was brought by appellants to restrain the appellees from selling two lots or parcels of land in the city of Austin under execution. The plaintiffs claimed that the lots constituted their homestead and that therefore they were exempt from forced sale. On one of the parcels, known as lot 12, in block 19, was situated a dwelling house, and the other, called the Lavaca Street property, was distant some three or four blocks from the other and had upon it a butcher’s shop and a part of a stable. The injunction was dissolved as to the latter, but was perpetuated…