Gibraltar Sav. & Bldg. Ass'n v. Collier

GRAVES, Justice.

This cause was a suit by the appellant, Building Association, against the appellees, G. M. Collier and children, called “the Colliers” — their mother having died meanwhile • — for recovery upon a $5,000 note executed in its favor by G. M. Collier and wife on May 1 of 1928, together with foreclosure of a contemporaneous deed-of-trust lien given by them to secure the note on three lots of land in the City of Temple; the Colliers defended on the ground that the property had' been their homestead under occupancy by them as such at the time of the execution of the note and lien,…