Pratt v. Godwin
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Parker. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. Carroll. This was an action brought by J. S. Godwin against W. W. Pratt and Donia Crawford, alleging that their claim of title to the land in controversy was a cloud upon the plaintiff’s title thereto, praying for a decree declaring it void, and to quiet him in his title, etc.
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Error from Parker. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. Carroll. This was an action brought by J. S. Godwin against W. W. Pratt and Donia Crawford, alleging that their claim of title to the land in controversy was a cloud upon the plaintiff’s title thereto, praying for a decree declaring it void, and to quiet him in his title, etc. The land was described in the petition as a part of a tract of three hundred and twenty acres patented to John H. Taylor as assignee of Bluford Haynes, on the 5th day of August, 1859. The plaintiff deraigned his title in his petition by a conveyance from Taylor to…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.—
The jury found on the special issues submitted to them, under appropriate instructions as to the constituent elements of a mortgage and a conditional sale respectively, that “ the transfer of the latid by Pratt and wife to Taylor was a mortgage.” The jury found likewise that when John H. Taylor, October 29, 1859, made the deed to Mrs. Letsy M. Pratt, the money paid to Taylor in consideration of said conveyance “ was not the individual money of Mrs. Pratt.” The jury also found that G. W. Pratt, the husband of Mrs. Pratt, did not consent, before nor at the time of the…
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