Court Opinion

ID: 9826956
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:00:46.95213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:19.999278
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Both appellant and appellees have filed a motion for rehearing. The motion of appellant is overruled. '
The motion of appellees urges four cross-assignments of error which they presented in their original brief, but which were not discussed in the original opinion.
All cross-assignments of error are overruled, except the fourth, by. which it is contended that the- court erred in foreclosing the deed of trust lien in suit for $70.45 attorney’s fees, which fees were predicated upon the amount of paving and tax indebtedness paid by appellant against the property involved and included in the renewal note and deed of trust lien involved in this suit. The law is well settled with regard to this point in Walters v. Tex. Bldg. & Loan Ass’n, 8 Tex.Civ.App. 500, 29 S.W. 51, 53, wherein the court said: “It is also insisted that the 10 per cent, attorney’s fees cannot be recovered and enforced as a lien upon the homestead. Such attorney’s fees are not embraced within the exceptions named in the constitution for which the homestead may be incumbered and subjected to forced sale. It is not a liability for which the parties may contract and incumber the homestead. * * * We are of the opinion that appellee had the right to *1070recover the attorney’s fees, but that no lien upon the homestead existed to secure the payment of such attorney’s fees.”
The identical question was also determined in Hufstedler v. Glenn, 82 S.W.2d 733, by this court.
The amount of the judgment rendered against appellee J. I. Noah is correct, but the court erred in awarding a foreclosure of the lien on the homestead property to the extent of the $70.45 attorney’s fees, and the judgment is accordingly reformed so as to deny a foreclosure of such lien to the extent of the attorney’s fees for $70.45, and is in all other respects affirmed.
Appellees’ Motion Granted in Part and in Part Overruled.