Calloway v. Bookout

Appellants, Calloway and wife, sued appel-lees, Hubert Bookout and Chas. L. Sanger, alleging that on and prior to the 9th of December, 1926, the property in controversy constituted their homestead upon which they resided ; that on said date they signed a deed, which, upon its face and according to its reading and tenor, purported to be a warranty deed, whereby they conveyed said land and premises to E. 0. Snead of Dallas, Tex., for the sum of $7,500; “that said instrument was in fact intended by plaintiff, Calloway, to operate only as a mortgage, the same being executed by him upon the…