Hill v. Stampfli

This suit was instituted by Edwin Hill and Mary C. Hill, son and daughter, respectively, of R. E. and Sallie C. Hill, to recover T. E. L. Company survey No. 2408, containing 320 acres of land situated in Archer county, Tex. The defendants denied the allegations of the plaintiffs' petition and claimed under a deed from R. E. Hill to them. The suit, as finally cast by the pleadings and evidence, resolved itself into a contest of whether the following deed executed by R. E. Hill and his only children, Edwin and Mary C. Hill, was a mortgage, instead of a warranty deed, conveying full title as the…