Investors' Mortgage Security Co. v. Newton
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. The Investors’ Mortgage Security Company sued Mrs. Newton and others to foreclose a mortgage on land claimed by defendants as homestead. Judgment was for defendants, and plaintiff obtained writ of error on its affirmance on his appeal (184 S. W., 29).
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The suit was one by the plaintiff in error in the District Court against the surviving widow and children of E. E. Newton, deceased, to establish, an indebtedness and lien upon certain land in Dallas County constituting Newton’s homestead at the time of his death, the claim having been previously presented for allowance to his administratrix and haying been refused by her.
'The original note and lien were given by Newton when he was a single man. More than a year afterwards he married. Later, he made the land-his homestead, but subsequently abandoned it and moved to Oklahoma, where he…
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