Bonner v. Grigsby

GAIRES, Associate Justice.

— The appellee brought this suit against appellant to recover certain lots in the town of Vernon, in Wilbarger County.

Both parties claimed under one L. R. Perkins as the common source of title. On the 16th day of September, 1882, one J. Doane, as county judge of Wilbarger County, executed to Perkins a bond for title to the lots in controversy, which purported to bind the county to execute to the obligee a warranty deed to the lots upon his pajdng the purchase money, amounting to $75, with interest, and upon the acquisition of the legal title by the county. At that…