Bank of Fredericksburg v. Wendel

This suit was brought by Mrs. Anna Wendel, joined pro forma by her husband, to recover of the Bank of Fredericks-burg the title to a 200-acre farm 26 miles from Fredericksburg, in Gillespie county, and occupied by the Wendel family- as -their homestead. It was contended by Mrs. Wendel .that the land was her separate property, and that she had conveyed it to the bank under duress growing out of threats made by the bank officials that, unless she conveyed the land to the bank in part settlement of her husband’s debt to it, her husband would be prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary upon a…