Van Zandt v. Brantley

LIGHTFOOT,

Chief Justice.—This suit was originally brought by appellants to recover of appellee 61 7-25 acres of land in Fannin County, with rents. Appellee Brantley in his answer concedes plaintiffs’ title, and sets up that he bought the land in good faith from F. J. Abernathy, who claimed to be the agent of appellants, who had been acting as such for a great number of years, and was so held out by plaintiffs to the public, and who had sold a number of tracts of. land for them out of the same survey. He set up in his pleading the following instrument of writing entered into between himself…