Massey v. Massey
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. Nat. M. Burford. Some time during the year 1851, the defendant in error, Frederick A, Massey, who was plaintiff in the Court below, gave to John M. Thomas, one of the defendants in the Court below, a bill of sale of a negro woman named Catharine and her child, and two boys named Will and Sandy.
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Appeal from Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. Nat. M. Burford. Some time during the year 1851, the defendant in error, Frederick A, Massey, who was plaintiff in the Court below, gave to John M. Thomas, one of the defendants in the Court below, a bill of sale of a negro woman named Catharine and her child, and two boys named Will and Sandy. On the third day of January, 1852, Jefferson Weatherford conveyed to said John M. Thomas eight hundred and twenty-nine acres of land, in two adjoining tracts, in Dallas county, purporting to be in consideration of eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars,…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The verdict does not rest upon the uncorroborated testimony of a single witness deposing to the admissions of the trustee. The testimony of the witness is strongly corroborated by other evidence in the case. The answer of the defendant, Thomas, expressly admits the trust. And however little weight that may be entitled to, having been made after the deed of gift to the other defendants, it cannot be doubted that the letter written by him to the plaintiff, and fully concurred in by his wife, before they made the deed, and when they held the legal title, is evidence strongly corroborative of the…
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