Peters v. Clements
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cass. Tried below before the Hon. M. L. Crawford. This was a suit by Naomi Peters, joined by her husband, to try the title to four hundred and fourteen acres of land, alleged to be the separate property of Naomi Peters. The land in controversy was part of a one-third league patented to Richard Peters.
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Appeal from Cass. Tried below before the Hon. M. L. Crawford. This was a suit by Naomi Peters, joined by her husband, to try the title to four hundred and fourteen acres of land, alleged to be the separate property of Naomi Peters. The land in controversy was part of a one-third league patented to Richard Peters. Richard Peters, in 1859, sold the third league, less three hundred and twenty acres, to Thomas M. Peters, who on 14th August, 1860, conveyed the land sold to him to W. F. Connell. The deed to Connell was made jointly by Thomas M. and Naomi Peters, in the State of Alabama, and was…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
On the 14th of August, 1860, Thomas M. Peters and Haomi Peters executed to W. F. Connell their deed for eleven hundred and fifty-six acres of land, of which the tract here in controversy is a part, retaining in the deed a lien to secure two notes given for a part of the purchase-money, and payable to Thomas M. Peters or bearer. The execution of the deed was acknowledged by the grantees on the day of its date, before the judge of probate of Laurence county, State of Alabama; but the certificate of the judge is not authenticated by a seal, nor does it show that the…
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