Ward v. Green, Guardian
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Third District, in an appeal from San Saba County. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Third District, in an appeal from San Saba County. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. In the petition for writ of error it is assigned, “that the Court of Civil Appeals erred in not holding that the contract between Gray and the Ward Bros, was one that the defendants in error (Green and his wards) had the right to accept, and in so doing, that they could only collect of the Wards the money they had agreed to pay, and that when they did so they must do what Gray must have done, that is, release the lien on the land sold, the money so paid being…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
—On May 1, 1886, R. A. Green was the guardian of the minors Sidney F. Green, Beulah Green, Francis Green, and Georgia Green, and as such loaned $5000 to Leigh Burleson and T. A. Gray, taking their note therefor, with a deed of trust on about 6000 acres of land in San Saba County, as well as other property. The note was payable in Bastrop County.
The title to the lands included in the deed of trust was in Leigh Burleson, but Gray had an interest in it of one-half. On the 6th day of July, 1887, T. A. Gray sold his interest in the land included in the deed of trust to Tom…
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