Phillips v. Warner

Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 147. Homestead; leasehold interest constitutes a; crops growing on are exempt from forced sale. Appellant sued appellee for $550 damages, with interest from September 14, 1887, for converting and appropriating to his own use appellant’s exempt crop of growing cotton, and about a bale of seed cotton, picked from said growing crop. Appellant filed his first amended original petition on the 17th March, 1888. He alleged that his homestead consisted in 1887 of sixty-five acres of land, which he planted in cotton. That he was a married man, having a wife and seven children,…