Clopton v. Cecil

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment reforming a deed upon the ground of mutual mistake. The primary question involved is whether Or not appellees demand for reformation was barred by the four year statute of limitations. Article 5529, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats. The deed was executed on November 8, 1938, and this suit was not filed until April 6, 1948. Appellant contends that appellee and T. S. Reed, who caused John H. Clopton, now deceased, to execute the conveyance to Lamar Cecil, the appellee, accepted and examined the deed in 1938, and that limitation commenced to run at that…