West Texas State Bank of Snyder v. Helms

CODLINGS, Justice.

C. R. Helms and wife, Doris Helms, brought suit against West Texas State Bank of Snyder, Texas, to have certain real property in Snyder declared to be their homestead and to cancel an abstract of judgment lien held by the defendant bank against the Helms insofar as said lien applied to such property. The West Texas State Bank answered that the Helms had abandoned the property as a homestead because they had moved away from it with the intention of never returning to occupy it as their home. The trial was before the court without a jury. Judgment was entered for the Iielms,…