Mattox v. West

Reid, Chief Justice.

In the first special ground of the motion for new trial it is contended that the evidence demanded a verdict in favor of the claimant. It is insisted that an option to buy land or a transfer of such instrument from the optionee, a husband, to his wife, does not grant any attachable interest or stand upon the same footing as a conveyance; and that an extension of an option is, in legal effect, a new option, so that where the wife acquired title by a deed from optionors, not during the original term of the option, but during the time of the second extension made thereon to…