Hedeman v. Newnom
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in ah appeal from Llano County. Hedeman obtained writ of error on a judgment of the Court of Appeals (184 S. W., 298), reversing and rendering for Mrs. Hewnom a judgment in his favor in the District Court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The question presented by the case is whether personal property upon which a valid mortgage lien had been given by its owner when a single man, may, upon his death after marriage, his estate being insolvent, be appropriated for allowances to his -widow in lieu of a homestead and exemptions, freed of the lien. The question is an important one and has not been determined by this court. The Court of Civil Appeals held the lien subordinate to the claim for allowances, reversing a judgment to the contrary rendered by the District Court upon the widow’s appeal from a like judgment against her in…
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