Lusher v. First Nat. Bank of Fort Worth

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

From a judgment granting defendants a summary judgment, the plaintiffs appeal.

Affirmed.

During the summer of 1934, a Mrs. Mattie L. Lusher executed a deed, which was placed of record with revenue stamps affixed thereto. This deed purported on its face to be an unconditional conveyance of a one-half undivided interest in certain real property, to a Mrs. Henrietta A. Thomas. Both of these parties at the time in question were femmes sole. It appears that immediately prior to the time of the conveyance, Mrs. Lusher owed Mrs. Thomas notes, which, coupled with arrears taxes,…