Smith v. Smith

HAMILTON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the District Court of the Eighty-third Judicial District, sitting at Alpine, Texas. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and resulted in the court’s decision that the deed involved conveyed a life estate to R. W. Smith, with remainder to the Baptist State Executive Committee. The appellant, Emmett .C. Smith, brought the suit in the nature of a trespass to try title, based on a deed from Leslie B. Guthrie and his wife, Mary L. Guthrie, to R. W. Smith. The important parts of the deed are as follows:

“The State of Texas County of Brewster

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