Merchants' & Planters' State Bank of Winnsboro v. Nichols

(after stating the facts as above). The appellant’s requested peremptory instruction to the jury was refused, and is here made the basis of complaint. The proposition, in effect, presents the point in view that both W. A. Nichols and his wife are estopped from asserting their claim to an exemption in the farm land by creating a lien upon the farm land by a trust deed, and by having designated and claimed a homestead in the lot in the town of Winnsboro upon which they were actually residing, inducting the belief in the bank that all claim to a homestead in the farm land had been abandoned. The…