Blackman v. Schierman

FINLEY, Chief Justice.

On June 6, 1898, appellee instituted this suit in the District Court of Navarro County to cancel a deed made by his testator, James Cosgrove, to appellant. Appellee’s original petition alleges in substance that on March 10, 1896, his testator, Cosgrove, made and executed a pretended deed from himself to appellant, by which he for a recited valuable consideration pretended to convey to appellant seventy-live acres of land in Navarro County; that in fact the deed was without consideration, but that Cosgrove, imagining that his land would be levied on to satisfy some…