Fennimore v. Ingham
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Lipscomb County; Frank Willis, Judge. Suit to foreclose a vendor’s lien by N. Fennimore against G. B. Ingham and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHendricks, J.
In February, 1912, one Mark Bishop was the owner of 160 acres of land situated in Lipscomb county, Tex., and on that day executed a deed of conveyance for a consideration of $2,000, recited to have been paid, with the name of the grantee left blank in said deed. One Sam Wilson was purchaser of this land, and the agreement between Bishop and Wilson was that the deed executed in blank was for the purpose of permitting Wilson to either insert his own name or the name of the party to whom he might sell the land, as grantee. Bishop was paid in full for said land, and never thereafter asserted any…
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