Dendy v. Gamble & Copeland

Warner, Chief Justice.

This case came before the court below on an appeal from, the ordinary of Harris county, allowing to the applicant a-homestead exemption under the constitution of 1863. The-applicant in his petition alleged that he was the head of a, family consisting of his sister, a widow about thirty-eight-years old, and her three children, aged seventeen, fifteen, and seven years old, respectively, who are indigent and1 mainly dependent upon petitioner for support. The creditors of the applicant demurred to his petition for a homestead' on the ground that it did nob show him to be…