Threatt v. Threatt

This is a suit to cancel a deed of record from the appellant to the appellee for 120 acres of land on the ground that the same never became effective because of nondelivery thereof by the former as grantor to the latter as grantee.

In September 1937, the appellant, E. M. Threatt, then residing at Eastland, Texas, and who was the owner of the fee simple title of the 120 acres of- land in Newton County, concluded to sell the same to the appellee, O. J. Threatt, after having first conducted some preliminary negotiations in regard thereto through correspondence by mail with his uncle, J. D.…