Walker v. Renfro
Texas Supreme Court
Error from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. R. E. B. Baylor. This suit was brought by Lucy Renfro against Sarah A. Walker and others, for the partition of a league and labor of land in McLennan county, in which tract the plaintiff claimed an undivided interest of four hundred acres.
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Error from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. R. E. B. Baylor. This suit was brought by Lucy Renfro against Sarah A. Walker and others, for the partition of a league and labor of land in McLennan county, in which tract the plaintiff claimed an undivided interest of four hundred acres. The plaintiff derived her title by purchase from Isaac Renfro, to whom the defendant, Sarah A. Walker, had conveyed the interest in question on the 6th day of January, 1853.- At the same time that Sarah A. Walker made this conveyance to Isaac Renfro, the latter by deed conveyed to her a tract of land in San…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
The deeds of the 6th of January, 1853, were executed and delivered to the parties respectively. The effect undoubtedly was to vest the title in accordance with the terms of the deeds. That effect, it is conceived, could not be obviated by the parol contemporaneous agreement that they should not be probated for registry until Renfro should perfect the title to the Sigler labor. The parties may not have been aware that such was the effect of the delivery. How that was, we are not certainly informed; *144but however it may have been, their not understanding its effect, Could not change the legal…
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