Legal Opinion

American Building & Loan Ass'n v. Mathews

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided April 8, 1896PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Error from Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Edward Gray.

1Opinion of the Court

JAMES, Chief Justice.

— The bill was brought in December, 1894, by Mathews and wife against the plaintiff in error and one Hall, averring that plaintiff in error was incorporated under the laws of Minnesota, and had its principal office in Minneapolis, in that State; that certain land, their homestead, had, by a contrivance between them, said association and Hall, been incumbered by a deed of trust in favor of the association for a loan of money, all in contravention of the homestead provisions of this State, and therefore void; that the loan had been fully paid, in fact, had been overpaid to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Arndt v. GriggsSupreme Court of the United States · 1890

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Luquire v. LeeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  2. Ferguson v. RaglandCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1922
  3. Clem v. Given'sSupreme Court of Virginia · 1906
  4. West v. McCelvey Loan & Investment Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1921

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