Cowden v. Bell

POPE, Justice.

W. H. Bell sued George Cowden and his children, hereinafter called Cowdens, in trespass to try title and obtained a summary judgment for title to a V12 mineral interest in lands. The legal question presented is whether Bell, the grantee under a deed from Cowden, is estopped from claiming under the deed because of his subsequent oral agreement not to record the deed and to treat the deed as inoperative. The trial court held that the oral agreement could not operate as a re-conveyance in the face of the Statute of Conveyances, Art. 1288, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats., and the Statute of…