Sheats v. King

RICE, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought in the district court of Kaufman county by George King, in his capacity as guardian of the estate of Guy Jacobs, non compos mentis, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, against Sam Sheats, hereinafter referred to as defendant, seeking recovery on a vendor’s lien and deed of trust note, together with foreclosure of said liens on a tract of land hereinafter referred to. Mary Ellen Sheats, a widow, hereinafter styled intervener, filed her plea of intervention, claiming the land in controversy as a homestead.

Trial was had to a jury, and at the conclusion…