Zorn v. Tarver
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Richardson. Mrs. Julia Tarver and her husband, E. B. Tarver, brought suit against J. Zorn to enjoin the sale of a tract of 1,001 acres of land, claimed as her separate property, and levied on as the property of her husband under an execution in favor of Zorn.
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Appeal from Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Richardson. Mrs. Julia Tarver and her husband, E. B. Tarver, brought suit against J. Zorn to enjoin the sale of a tract of 1,001 acres of land, claimed as her separate property, and levied on as the property of her husband under an execution in favor of Zorn. The land had been sold, April 5, 1870, by the sheriff of Guadalupe county, under an order of sale to satisfy a judgment against E. R. Tarver and others, when Miss C. L. Young became the purchaser. June 14, 1870, Miss Young, by ordinary title bond, conveyed the land to Mrs. Tarver,…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
It is unnecessary, if the facts were sufficiently developed on the trial of this case in the District Court to warrant our doing so, for us to say what was the actual character of the arrangement between appellees and Miss C. L. Young which led to her purchase of the judgment of Holloman v. Bee and others, and subsequent purchase of the land sold under it by the decree of the court. For whether we should conclude, as insisted by appellees, that Miss Young acquired by her purchase at said sale an absolute and indefeasible title to the land, or, as appellants maintain,…
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