Bullock v. Sprowls
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. Sprowls brought trespass to try title against Bullock, and had judgment recovering land conveyed by him while a minor. Bullock appealed, and on affirmance of the judgment obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
The facts affecting the question on which this writ of error was granted are the following:
Defendant in error, Sprowls, on the 3d day of February, 1894, being a minor 17 years of age, agreed with his stepfather, E. J. Allen, to buy a fifth interest in a mercantile business which the latter owned, and, in order to raise money to pay for it, proposed to sell to plaintiff in error, Bullock, the one-sixth interest now in controversy in land which he had inherited from his father. The parties met and discussed the proposition to sell the land to Bullock, who at first…
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