J. S. Brown Hardware Co. v. Catrett

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title brought by appellant against the appellees. The property in controversy is a lot in the city of Beaumont. Plaintiff claims under a deed executed by the defendants conveying the lot to J. A. Reynolds. The defendants answered that this deed was intended as a mortgage to secure the payment by them to Reynolds of $500 which they had agreed to pay him in consideration of the sale to them of a certain patent right owned by said Reynolds, and that said mortgage was void because the property was a part of defendants’ homestead…