Paris Grocer Co. v. W.H. Burks
Texas Supreme Court
A parol condition of defeasance can not be engrafted on an unconditional conveyance, to the prejudice of purchasers from or attaching creditors of the grantee. (Pp. 113, 114.) Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fifth District, in an appeal from Bed Biver County. The appellants, Paris Grocer Co. et al., on affirmance of the judgment below by the Court of Civil Appeals, obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
A full statement of the character of this litigation will be .found in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, 17th Texas Court Reporter, 892. As the questions raised by the application for a writ of error relate only to the controversy concerning the tract of eighteen acres of land referred to below, the statement here will be confined to the facts on which those questions depend.
Mrs. I. H. Burks was the owner of a tract of seventy-two acres of land which she occupied as a home. For the eighteen acre tract now in controversy, originally a part of the first named tract, she executed to her…
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