Davis v. Kennedy
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. B. S. Walker. The opinion states the case. A detail of the evidence, which is voluminous, would not aid to understand the opinion, in view of facts stated in it.
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
Kennedy and wife sued appellant to recover a tract of land claimed as their homestead, and to which it was alleged Davis had, through fraud, obtained a conveyance from them. It was charged that the parties made an exchange of property, Davis conveying to Kennedy and wife a house and lot in the town of Augusta, Houston county, and they making to him a bond for title to two hundred and fifty acres of land which was their rural homestead. The petition alleges that, by means of a fraudulent collusion between Davis and the officer taking the wife’s separate acknowledgment,…
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