Griffis v. Payne
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Lamar County. Payne, by next friend, sued Griffis in trespass to try title and recovered judgment, from which the latter appealed and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
J. A. W. Burris was a single man living in Lamar County upon a farm, who, some years before his death, made a will by which he devised the land in controversy to T. E. Griffis. The will was duly probated after the death of Burris, and Griffis claimed the land under that will.
A short time before his death, Burris made-a deed by the terms of which he conveyed the land to Zege Payne, his nephew, and delivered the deed to one Wagoner to be held by him until the death of Burris, after which it was to be delivered to the grantee. Defendant in error, who was plaintiff below,…
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