Brand v. Colorado Salt Co.

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The deed of S. B. Brand and wife placed the title of the land in controversy, their homestead, in a trustee for the Colorado Salt Company, and the court did not err in instructing a verdict for defendants in error. The recovery thus had by the Colorado Salt Company, plaintiff below, was resisted upon the ground that the separate acknowledgment of the wife of S. B. Brand had not been taken in the manner prescribed by law for the conveyance of the homestead. That Brand and his wife appeared before the officer who took the acknowledgment, and that the certificate was…