of the family.”); 43 Tex. Jur.2d § 35 (stating that the rural homestead exemption serves the purpose of securing a place for a ockhold v. Buie, 293 F. 1021 (5th Cir.1923)(coneluding that land, contiguous to the debtor’s residence, on which he ran a general store and public blacksmith shop, was exempt rural homestead); In the absence of a clear statement expressly limiting the scope of the rural homestead to property used for home or agricultural purposes, we cannot agree that the operation of a business, without more, necessarily forfeits a rural homestead interest. The Dealings challenged Perry’s ability to claim the 26 and 59-acre tracts as rural homestead on the theory that they were used inconsistently with homestead purposes. See Wynne v. Hudson, 66 Tex. 1, 17 S.W. 110, 112 (1886)(<HOLDING>). On remand, the court may wish to consider the
holding land for speculation is a legitimate commercial use grazing on land so classified subject to a special use permit holding that an issue is abandoned when not raised in an appellate brief holding that land that is permanently appropriated to an inconsistent use is abandoned recognizing validity of water right appropriated to irrigate land appropriator only occupied on public domain recognizing validity of water rights appropriated on public domain for use on school trust land even though appropriator did not own or intend to patent place of use