Nohra Ex Rel. Nassour v. Evans
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
O’QUINN, Justice.
Appellant brought this suit by next friend seeking to annul a deed and other instruments, through which appellees acquired title to eight parcels of real property, and alleged as ground for rescission her lack of mental capacity to execute the instruments.1
Upon a verdict, in which the jury failed to find that appellant lacked mental capacity to make the instruments, the trial court entered judgment that appellant take nothing by her suit. Appellant brings the sole point of error that in charging the jury the court failed to submit a definition of mental capacity to include as…
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