Barr v. Wall

265 S.W.2d 208 (1953)

BARR et al.

v.

WALL et al.

No. 6716.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

December 10, 1953.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 1954.

Long & Strong, Neal Powers, Carthage, Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Miller & Martin, Dallas, for appellants.

Sid B. Turner, J. E. McLemore, Jr., Tom Bankhead, Carthage, for appellees.

WILLIAMS, Justice.

Lloyd Thompson, the agreed common source of title, conveyed to W. E. Langley a 77.9 acre tract of land out of the Samuel Duncan Survey in Panola County, Texas. In this conveyance, dated December 6, 1916, Thompson retained a vendor's lien to secure the…