Crume v. Smith

McKAY, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment in a partition suit involving 252.87 acres of land in Anderson County, Texas.

The property in question was owned by J. R. Crume; upon his death in 1925 the property was inherited by Crume’s wife Mollie, their four daughters (appellees’ predecessors) and one son (appellants’ predecessor). In 1929, Mollie Crume and her five children conveyed a 209/240th interest in the land by general warranty deed (first deed) to T. W. Wright, cousin of Mollie Crume, in which consideration was recited to be

“THREE HUNDRED & EIGHTY SIX DOLLARS [$386] to us cash…