J. D. Blair & Co. v. Thorp
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Matagorda. The transcript from the district court, in this case, has not reached the hands of the Beporter. The facts; however, are very fully, and doubtless very fairly, stated in the argument of counsel.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
In his lifetime John L. Thorp was indebted to Straus & Co., to the amount of about $10,000. To secure the payment of which sum, joined by his wife, he executed the ordinary deed of trust, with power of sale, to G. Baer. The debt, it seemed, was not due, nor did it mature in the lifetime of Thorp. After his death the wife, in probable ignorance of her rights, and supposing she could not hold the lands on which the trust deed had been given, applied to the county court for an allowance, in lieu of her homestead, to be made to herself and a • young minor child. The court made her an allowance of…
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