Moorhouse v. Crew

POPE, Justice.

The point presented by this- appeal is-whether the deed, described below, by a father who had the exclusive homestead fights in the property, resulted in an abandonment of that exclusive right. The trial court held that there was such an1 abandonment. •

W. F. Moorhouse, a widower, prior to November, 25, 1942, owned an undivided fiveisixths interest in four, city lots in. Aransas Pass. For twenty years before that date he continuously, together with his wife before her death, occupied the premises as his home, so he also had an exclusive homestead interest, which extended to the…