Tuck v. Miller

O’QUINN, Justice.

Geraldine Miller, one of the appellees, brought this suit against Grady Tuck, Jr., the appellant, seeking to impress an equitable trust upon a 170-acre farm in Bastrop County, and alternatively for damages, based upon Tuck’s refusal to perform under an oral agreement concerning the land.

The jury found that a confidential relationship existed between Geraldine Miller and Tuck prior to her conveyance of the farm to Tuck and that the land was deeded to Tuck pursuant to an agreement that he would take title for the purpose of obtaining a loan on the land and in order to secure…