Guerra v. Garza

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

Leocadio Garza, Faustina O. de Garza, his wife, Julio Garza, and Leocadio Garza, Jr., instituted this suit against Gustavo Guerra and Victoriano Martinez to establish that an instrument, in form a deed, executed by them to defendants to be a mortgage, and therefore void as a lien against one of two tracts of land therein conveyed and claimed by them to be homestead 'at the time of the conveyance. The defendants answered by general denial, alleged that the instrument was in fact a deed conveying the lands to them in fee simple, and by cross-action sought to correct the…