Baker v. Baker
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Marion. Tried below before the Hon. B. T. Estes. The case is fully stated .in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Chief Justice.
The contest in this case is over the ownership of a tract of land, conveyed March 2, 1874, by J. T. J.-Smith and wife to Mrs. Ida Baker for an expressed consideration of $2,500. At the time Ida Baker and William M. Baker were husband and wife, and the controlling, or at least the principal question in the case, is as to the sufficiency of the evidence to make this deed operate as between them, to vest the title in her separately instead of in the community.
The vendors, Smith and wife, were the parents of Mrs. Ida Baker, but the conveyance was for the full consideration…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Peters v. ClementsTexas Supreme Court · 1876
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- Dunham v. ChathamTexas Supreme Court · 1858
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