Ruhl v. Kauffman & Runge
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Stewart. In lieu of her original application, filed March 19, 1883, Mrs. Elizabeth Buhl filed in the county court, April 4, 1883, her amended application for an order setting aside to her and her three minor children, -as a homestead, lots eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, in block two hundred and fifty four, and improvements, in the city of Galveston.
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Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Stewart. In lieu of her original application, filed March 19, 1883, Mrs. Elizabeth Buhl filed in the county court, April 4, 1883, her amended application for an order setting aside to her and her three minor children, -as a homestead, lots eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, in block two hundred and fifty four, and improvements, in the city of Galveston. She averred that she was the surviving wife, and her children the surviving children, of J. H. Buhl, who died insolvent, October 17, 1882, and that the property was then, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson, Associate Justice.
Buhl’s purpose in purchasing lot eleven was, and what use he intended to make of it and did apply it to, in the years 1879 and 1880, are inquiries bearing upon the issue in controversy; they are not themselves the issue, nor necessarily decisive of it. Mrs. Buhl was entitled to have set apart to her, in this proceeding, the homestead of the family as it existed within constitutional limits at the date of her husband’s death, in 1882. What constituted the homestead at that date is the matter to be determined. Let it be conceded that lot eleven was bought in 1879 on…
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