Barrera v. Gonzalez

I do not agree with the holding of the majority that the implied finding of the trial court to the effect that the warranty deed in evidence was what it purported to be on its face, an absolute conveyance of the land in controversy, was against the great weight of the evidence, and that for this reason the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.

The appellants undertook to prove that the deed, regular on its face, signed, acknowledged and recorded, was not what it purported to be, but was only a mortgage on the business homestead of Guadalupe E. Barrera and his wife, Cruz G. Barrera.…