Bahn v. Starcke

GAINES, Chief Justice.

The Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District have submitted for our decision the following question:

“This is an action by the appellant to recover from appellee 200 acres of land. Appellee claimed that the land was her homestead.

“Appellant claimed the land under execution sale against appellee, followed by deed to him, in form, by the sheriff.

“Appellee is the divorced wife of A. Bahn, on the-day of September, 1893, by the District Court of Blanco County; the land in suit was the separate estate of her husband, and was their homestead prior to the…