Gleed v. Pickett

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This was a suit brought in the District Court of Bosque County by the plaintiff, J: W. Gleed, to foreclose a mortgage executed in his lifetime by Joseph Pickett and his wife, Mrs. Ti M. Pickett, on certain contiguous tracts of land situated in said .county. Joseph Pickett having died, the suit was brought against the widow, Mrs. Pickett, and the children.

The defense was that the largest and most valuable part of the land covered by the mortgage was at the time of its execution the homestead of Pickett and his family. • To this the plaintiff replied that at the time of…