Frazier v. Frazier

SIMS, Chief Justice.

As the principal parties of this action have the same surnames, to save time and space we will refer to them usually by their given names.

On July 14, 1947, Joe Fuson and wife conveyed jointly to Newt Frazier and Alice Frazier, his sister-in-law, in consideration of $200 cash in hand paid, a 2-acre vacant lot located in a rural section of Bell County, which fronted 200 feet on a highway and ran back 440 feet between parallel lines. The proof shows that it was agreed between the grantees that they would partition the lot between themselves, Alice taking the west half…