Mayer v. Ramsey
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Panola. Tried below before the Hon. George Lane. Suit brought by A. Mayer, the appellant, against Ramsey, in trespass to try title. Ramsey answered “not guilty,” and twelve months’ occupancy of the land in good faith, and that he had made permanent and valuable improvements.
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Appeal from Panola. Tried below before the Hon. George Lane. Suit brought by A. Mayer, the appellant, against Ramsey, in trespass to try title. Ramsey answered “not guilty,” and twelve months’ occupancy of the land in good faith, and that he had made permanent and valuable improvements. It was agreed on the trial, that both parties derived title 1‘rom a common source—one G-. G. Soap; appellant read in evidence a deed from Soap to M. Mayer, dated August 3d, 1862, and a deed from M. Mayer to himself, for the land in controversy, dated August 5, 1862. Appellant then closed. Appellee read in…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
Under the charge of the court, the defendant was only entitled to a verdict in case the jury believed that he had established the fact that he was induced to buy by the disclaimer of plaintiff when applied to, to sell *375the land, and his representations then made, that he did not claim the land, but that Moorer was the person to apply to. The charge, in fact, was, that the plaintiff showed in himself the legal title, and, assuming the invalidity of defendant’s title, submitted to the jury only the defense of estoppel. If that defense was sufficiently established, it is…
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