James v. McCartney

WILSON, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from a take-nothing judgment on a jury verdict. We quote from his statement of the nature of the case: “The suit was filed by appellant to set aside a purported deed” executed by appellant’s grandmother to her daughter, the appellee, “on the ground that it was not the intention of” the grantor “to pass title upon execution of the deed.” Appellee “took her mother to an attorney’s office where she executed a will leaving her property in equal one-fifth portions to her heirs, and at the same time executed a deed to the major portion of said property to appellee;…