Hanes v. Hanes

[1] Defendant in error was appellant in the Court of Civil Appeals, and in that court urged six assignments of error, numbered 1 to 7, there being no assignment No. 2. Five of these assignments were overruled by that court, but the sixth (No. 7), to the effect that the deed under which plaintiff claimed was tainted' with illegality, in that its consideration in part was an agreement not to prosecute defendant’s son, was sustained, the trial court’s judgment reversed, and judgment rendered in favor of the appellant in that court, defendant below, and defendant in error here. The cause was…