Beale v. Ryan

Devine, Associate Justice.

The defendant in error brought suit in the District Court of Lamar county against J. E. Combs, the administrator of J. M. Alexander, and C. Beale and Mary F. Beale, to recover a' tract of one hundred and ninety-six acres of land, which he stated in his petition was the homestead of Beale and wife at the time they signed the paper called by him a conditional deed, and under which, as assignee, he claims title to the land in controversy.

The principal facts in the case are briefly as follows:

• C. Beale, on the sixth day of March, 1862, signed an agreement, or…