Chasteen v. Miller

BARROW, Justice.

This suit was filed by appellant, Ada M. Chasteen, to set aside and hold for naught a deed from her former husband, Willard J. Chasteen, to appellee, Bradford F. Miller, on the ground that it was in fact a mortgage on the homestead of appellant and said Willard J. Chasteen. Appellant alleged that she did not join in the conveyance, that the property was at the time her homestead, and that such homestead was in the divorce decree awarded to her, that, therefore, the deed from her husband alone, without her joinder, is invalid under Article 16, § 50, of the Texas Constitution,…