Dotson v. Barnett

WILLIAMS,

Associate Justice.—Appellee Jesse Barnett, about ten or twelve years before the trial below, by verbal agreement, bought from one Ben Bed the thirteen acres of land in controversy, a part of a tract of fifty-six acres then owned by Red. Appellee paid for the land, and at once togk possession, built houses upon the land, and put it in cultivation. Some years afterwards he married, and he and his wife, the other appellee, have ever since lived upon and used the land as a homestead.

About March, 1891, Jesse Barnett directed Red to make a deed for the land to appellant, and on that date…