Eastham v. Hunter
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Walker County. Hunter and others sued Eastham and others for the recovery of land. Defendants had judgment and plaintiffs appealed. The judgment was reversed and rendered in favor of appellants, and appellees, defendants below, obtained writ of error. A previous recovery by defendants was reversed by the Supreme Court. Hunter v. Eastham, 95 Texas, 648.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Beverly Hunter and Caroline Hunter, husband and wife, owned and occupied as their homestead the land in controversy. In 1879 they executed a power of attorney to Robert Hunter, their son, authorizing him to sell the land. On January 5, 18S0, Robert Hunter, acting under the power of attorney, sold the land to W. R. Pace .and made him a deed reciting a cash payment of $112.50, and on December 1, 1880, Pace sold the land to B. Bastham and executed to him a deed in which it was recited that the consideration of $145.25 was paid. Beverly Hunter and Caroline Hunter removed…
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