Mexia v. Lewis

- GAINES, Associate Justice.

This case comes to us upon a certificate of dissent. The suit was brought by appellants, for the recovery of a tract of land claimed by the appellees. The plaintiffs, among other things, pleaded a judgment in their favor in a former suit against defendant Joe Lewis, to which his wife was not a party. The defendants pleaded in reply that at the time that suit was instituted the land was their homestead, and that it had continued to be such until the time of filing their plea.

Upon the trial of the case, evidence was introduced tending to show that the land had been…