Rivera v. White, Guardian
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. Rivera sued White, guardian, and others, and appealed from a judgment for defendants, on the affirmance of which he obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
On the 28th day of October, 1897, plaintiff in error, who resided in Chicago, conveyed the land in controversy to his sister, the wife of Harry L. White, one of defendants in error, who resided in Texas, by a deed reciting the payment of “one dollars and other considerations.” In fact, there was no consideration, but the property was conveyed upon an agreement that Mrs. White should hold it in trust for plaintiff for the purpose of avoiding a claim for alimony which plaintiff feared his wife, who had sued him in Illinois for a divorce, would make against him. Mrs.…
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