Huddle v. Cleveland

POPE, Justice.

William H. Cleveland filed suit in trespass to try title, and at the conclusion of all the evidence the court withdrew the case from the jury and rendered judgment that he recover thirty acres of land from his parents and his three sisters.

In 1936, plaintiffs parents, J. F. and Dora Cleveland, executed a deed which conveyed sixty acres of land to their son, William. The deed reserved an express vendor’s lien in the amount of $722, and also stated that William assumed one-half of a, debt owing to the Federal Land Bank. The one-half amounted to $675. The acknowledgment to the deed…