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24 Tex. 217

Bomback v. Sykes

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1859

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1859-07-01

Error from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. Thomas J. Devine. This was a suit by Otto Bomback, and his wife, Sarah Jane Bomback, against William Sykes, Hector McNeill, and E. L. Paschal, to enjoin Paschal, as trustee, from selling a house and lot, (which, it was alleged in the petition, and admitted in the answer, was the homestead of the plaintiffs,) under a deed of trust executed by them, to secure a note given to the defendants, Sykes and McNeill, for f1000.

Decided 1859-07-01

Wheeler, C. J.

¶1It is averred in the petition, and is not denied in the answer, that the property embraced in the deed of trust, is the homestead of the appellants. Though there is no statement of facts, there is no averment in the pleadings, under which evidence could have been admitted, that it was not the homestead. It must, therefore, be deemed, from the allegations of the parties, to have been the homestead; and, as such, it is exempt from forced sale. (Const., Art. 7, § 22; Sampson v. Williamson, 6 Texas Rep. 102.)

¶2The court, therefore, erred in adjudging a sale of the property by the sheriff, under compulsory process from the court. The proper judgment would have been a dissolution of the injunction, thereby enabling the trustee to proceed to sell, in accordance with the power contained in the deed; and this would have been consistent with the prayer of the defendants. The judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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