Bassett v. Messner

This was an “agreed case,” submitted to *609the judgment of the court below. The facts are, as presented substantially in the briefs of both parties, that Messner, one of the appellees, bought 35^ acres of land in the year 1854, adjoining what was then the village of Brenham, for the sum of $3,500; that he entered into the possession of it immediately, and, with his family, occupied it as a homestead until his death, since the rendition of the ■judgment upon the “agreed case” in the court below; that his surviving wife and children still occupy the premises; that the village of Brenham, at the…