Jarrell v. Mortgage Bond Co. of New York

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

Davis Jarrell and her husband, G. J. Jar-rell, have prosecuted this appeal from a judgment rendered against ó. J. Jarrell in favor of the Mortgage Bond Company, for debt in the sum of $12,929.94, and against him and his wife, Davis Jarrell, for foreclosure of a deed of trust lien against certain real estate situated in Fort Worth, Texas, to satisfy said debt.

By special plea, defendants alleged that the property in controversy was their homestead at the time the deed of trust was executed and attacked as untrue the certificate of acknowledgment to the deed of trust,…