Kinney v. Vinson
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. C. A. Frazier. The facts are sufficiently indicated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
In this action of trespass to try title, the plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs in the court below. It is contended by the appellants that their recovery in the action was defeated by the ruling of the court in excluding the parol proof offered by them of the existence and loss of a power of attorney, an important link in their chain of title, and upon which the subsequent and mesne conveyances to them were dependant.
It cannot be questioned that when there is an allegation in *127the pleading of the former existence and its loss or destruction of a writing, which might be an instrument of…
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