Keller v. Downey

On the 8th day of February, 1929, appellee, Mrs. Clara May Downey, joined by her husband and her mother, Mrs. Grace C. Ruby, executed to appellant, Mrs. Grace Keller, as a gift a warranty deed conveying to her 76.52 acres of land out of the Thomas Choate League in Harris county, Texas. The deed was executed in Montgomery county, Maryland; the certificate of acknowledgment of appellee, in all respects regular as to form, was by J. J. Shoemaker, a notary public in and for Montgomery county, Maryland.

This suit was instituted by appellee in the statutory form of trespass to try title against…