Interstate Building & Loan Ass'n v. Goforth
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. The building association sued Goforth and wife and appealed from a judgment allowing their debt but refusing foreclosure of the lien claimed to secure it. Plaintiff appealed, and on affirmance, with reduction of its judgment, obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BBOWN, Associate Justice.
On the 5th" day of May, 1894, Go-forth and his wife entered into a contract in writing with C. H. Shoemaker for the erection of a house upon the homestead of Goforth and his wife, the property in controversy in this suit. The contract was duly acknowledged by the husband and wife before an officer authorized by law to take the acknowledgment, and in every way executed to make it valid and binding upon the wife, but the officer, in making the certificate, did not comply with the statute in taking the wife’s acknowledgment. The house having been erected, Goforth and…
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