Elliott v. Texas, Pacific Coal & Oil Co.

This is an appeal from a Judgment in favor of appellee company on a street improvement certificate issued by the city of Olney, Tex., for fhe sum of $982.39, principal and interest, with a foreclosure of a lien given by law to secure the payment of said certificate on lot 1, block 23, in Olney town site addition. Appellant’s,defense was that the property upon which the lien was enforced was a homestead at and prior to the time of the street improvement made.

The essential facts may be briefly stated as follows: Appellant was a divorced widow, and had been for some 23 years prior to the month…