Evans v. Marlow
Evans v. Marlow
Opinion of the Court
This is an action for damages brought by Mattie E. Evans against J. B. Marlow and J. W. Walkup, the latter being sheriff of Wichita county, to recover for a wrongful ejectment from lot 5, in block 119, in the city of Wichita Falls, under a writ ■of sequestration sued out by J. B. Marlow against plaintiff’s husband, N. B. Evans. After hearing the evidence, the trial court instructed a verdict against the plaintiff, and she has appealed.
The facts, briefly stated, are that appellee Marlow had sold the house and lot in question to one W. W. Jackson, retaining the vendor’s lien to secure the payment of certain notes amounting to $650. Jackson had ■sold the same property to N. B. Evans and had taken his notes for $800. Evans was unable to pay the notes which Jackson had given to Marlow, and was also unable to pay the notes which he had given to Jackson. He thereupon entered into a contract with Marlow, by the terms of which he acknowledged tenancy and agreed to surrender possession thereof to Marlow at the end of 30 days in satisfaction of all of said notes. Evans refused to surrender such possession, ■and Marlow then brought suit against Jackson and Evans and sought and obtained a writ of sequestration, by virtue of which Evans and his wife, this appellant, were ousted from possession of the property. Mrs. Evans was not made formally a party to that suit; nor did she sign the agreement by which her husband agreed to surrender possession of the property. She pleaded in this suit, and the evidence tended to support the allegation, that her separate property entered into the purchase from Jackson, and the property constituted her homestead. The sole question thus presented, of course, is whether or not these facts entitled appellant to a submission of the case to a jury. We think they did not.
Judgment affirmed.
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