Stricklin v. Southwest Reserve Life Ins. Co.

HALL, Chief Justice.

Appellee Southwest Reserve Life Insurance Company instituted this suit in the District Court of Gregg County against J. A. Stricklin and wife, appellants, on a $10,000 note and to foreclose a mechanics’ and materialman’s lien on their homestead situated in the ’City of Longview. Appellee L. W. Perkins, assignor of said note and Hen to the insurance company, was made a party-defendant as a junior lienholder. Appellants answered that the property involved was their homestead and that the insurance company was not an innocent purchaser of the note and lien; that said lien was…