Parker v. Beavers
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Houston. By mistake a wrong transcript was furnished to the reporters in this case; and we are unable, therefore, to give a statement of the case.
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Appeal from Houston. By mistake a wrong transcript was furnished to the reporters in this case; and we are unable, therefore, to give a statement of the case. The following partial statement is taken from the brief of the counsel for appellee : The suit was commenced by the appellant, to recover twelve thousand four hundred dollars which in his petition he alleged that appellee’s intestate had collected for him as his attorney-in fact in Sept., 1853, from C. W. Lee, appellant’s former guardian, a claim for which duly verified had been presented to the appellee and rejected' by him. Before…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
It is not neccessary to express any opinion *409on the question, (which has been argued at length and with much ability by counsel for the appellee, in support of their demurrer,) whether it was competent to set up and prove by parol, a trust or use different from that which the deed imports. For, however that may be, our opinion upon the other questions presented by the record, would require the same disposition of the case. Upon the question of the sufficiency of the petition, and the right to introduce parol evidence to establish a trust contrary to the import of the deed, the judgment of the…
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