Martin Clothing Co. v. Henly

HEKRY, Associate Justice.

Appellant sued for a debt, and caused a writ of attachment to be levied upon the interest of the defendant in a piece of land. The defendant claimed that the land constituted a part of his homestead, and was therefore not subject to the levy. The following facts were shown by the evidence:

Henly testified, that at the time the writ of attachment was levied upon his half-interest in the lots he was living in the village of Bed-ford, which consisted of eight or ten houses built along the public road, and containing twenty or thirty inhabitants; that said town had never…