McCormick v. Stoneheart

The parties to this suit are owners of adjoining lots in the city of Dallas. Barnett Gibbs, the remote grantor of appellee, had erected a partition wall across the division line of these lots in pursuance to a written contract with H. C. Penniman, the remote grantee of appellant, which contract was duly signed, and acknowledged by the said respective parties and their wives, and placed of record, and is in substance as follows:

“Know all men by these presents, that we, Barnett Gibbs and wife, S. A. Gibbs, parties of the first part, and H. C. Penniman and wife Mary L. Penniman, parties of the…