Causey v. Handley

FLY, Associate Justice.

Mrs. Come Causey, for herself, and as next friend of her minor children, Maggie and Lorena Causey, instituted this action to recover a house and lot in the town of Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas. In addition to the statutory allegations required in actions of trespass to try title, it was alleged that the land in controversy had been the homestead of Mrs. Causey and her husband, who died in January, 1904, and that she, at the request and solicitation, of her said husband, in July, 1903, joined her husband in the execution of a certain instrument, which he assured…