Havard v. Carter-Kelly Lumber Co.

McMEANS, Associate Justice.

TheCarter-Kelly Lumber Company, claiming to have purchased from appellants all the pine timber twelve inches and more in diameter at the stump on the two hundred acres of land of appellants, brought this suit seeking to have construed by the court the following deed executed by appellants to it, viz.:

“Know all men by these presents, that we, A. S. Havard and E. A. Havard, husband and wife, of the county of Angelina and State of Texas, for [and] in consideration of the sum of two thousand dollars to us in hand paid by Carter-Kelly Lumber Company, the receipt of which…