Chapman v. Clark

The findings of the jury, (1) that the land was appellees' homestead at the time they executed and delivered the instrument purporting to be an absolute deed conveying it to Knight, and (2) that that instrument was intended to operate only as a mortgage to secure money loaned by the bank to Knight and appellee W. A. Clark, were warranted by the testimony, as was also the finding of the court, involved in the judgment (article 1985, Vernon's Statutes), that the bank knew that the sale of the land to Knight was a simulated one in pursuance of a scheme to incumber appellees' homestead with a…