Evans v. Templeton

Gaines, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought this suit in tho court below against appellant and E. B. Brown, alleging in his petition that, in 1873, the former conveyed to him a certain lot in the city of Fort Worth; that afterwards, in 1884, he again sold and conveyed the property to his co-defendant Brown; that his deed, duly acknowledged, was deposited for record in the office of the county clerk of Tarrant county, and, together with the court house of that county, was destroyed by fire in 1876. It was also averred that the lot in controversy was sold and conveyed to Brown, in connection…