Coyel v. Mortgage Bond Co.

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This suit was brought by the Mortgage Bond Company against D. S. Coyel and wife for debt and to foreclose a mortgage lien on a house and lot on Speight Street in the city of Waco. The defendants sought to defeat the lien on the ground that the property was their homestead at the time the mortgage was executed. The jury found against the homestead claim and judgment was entered for the plaintiff for the debt with foreclosure of lien. The defendants appealed.

Appellants contend that the jury’s finding that the property was not their homestead at the time the mortgage was…