Pope v. Taliaferro

RICE, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee, as plaintiff, against appellant, to enforce specific performance of a written contract to convey one-half of a section of State school land surveyed for the B. B. B. & C. R. R. Co., situated in Franklin County, Texas. Plaintiff alleged, among other things, that after execution of said contract, plaintiff and defendant made a parol partition of the land between them, but that defendant refused, upon demand, to make plaintiff a deed for his half thereof.

Defendant filed a general demurrer and specially excepted to the petition on the…