de Everett v. Texas Mexican Railway Co.

Willie, Chief Justice.

This case is similar in most of its features to that of Everett v. Perez, lately decided. The property sued for was part of the same trust estate vested in the defendants Perez and Collins, as trustees, by a decree of the district court of Nueces county. In this case, however, the land in controversy was not purchased by one of the trustees, but was conveyed by them to the appellee for the mere nominal consideration of one dollar. The petition seeks to set aside this conveyance as having been executed in violation of the trust; and to remove the cloud which it casts upon…