Yarbrough v. Clarkson
Yarbrough v. Clarkson
Opinion of the Court
This is an action in the ordinary form of trespass to try title, brought by the appellant against the appel-lees, ' A. E. Clarkson, G. J. Palmer, and A. W. Palmer. The land involved in the suit is a tract of 50 acres off the extreme north ends of the R. M. Armstrong and Frank Hamilton surveys in Harris county.
The defendants answered by general de *955 murrer, general denial, and plea of not guilty.
The cause was submitted to a jury in the court below upon special issues, and upon the return of the verdict judgment was rendered thereon in favor of the defendants.
W. H. Bundy is common source of title. On February 27, 1906, he conveyed the land to appellant, L. N. Yarbrough, for a recited consideration of $1,000. The land thereby conveyed is described in this deed as follows: “Survey No. 8, block No. 1, Washington County R. R. Co. survey (R. M. Armstrong survey), and the Frank Hamilton or Swisher survey, containing 50 acres, being that part on north- side of county road belonging to said tracts (surveys) owned and known as the land belonging to W. H. Bundy, being about 200 yards wide and the lengths of said tracts of land.”
In March, 1906, appellant, Yarbrough, conveyed to defendant A. E. Clarkson the following described land: “Located and being in Harris county, Texas, in the John M. Swisher & Frank Hamilton 171.28-acre survey, patent No. 119, vol. 8, and Abstract No. 1220, Harris County Block Books, being the same tracts of land conveyed to W. H. Bun-dy by L. P. Boles by deed dated April 19, 1904, and recorded in Harris County Deed Records, vol. 163, p. 264, and conveyed to said W. H. Bundy by Jas. and Winnie E. Sumpter, April 23, 1904, as shown by the Deed Records of Harris county, vol. 163, p. 263. Reference is hereby made to said deeds for the metes and bounds of the land herein conveyed and for further and fuller description and identification; the land as set out in said deeds being in three tracts, all contiguous and adjoining, and containing 50 acres more or less. The said tracts include all lands belonging to W. H. Bundy lying N. of the Harris county public road and conveyed by W. H. Bundy to me, as shown by the deed on file among the Deed Records of Harris county.”
The Boles and Sumpter deeds to W. H. Bundy, referred to in the foregoing deed for a description of the land thereby conveyed, describe and convey three adjoining tracts of land in the southern ends of the Armstrong and Hamilton surveys; one of said tracts containing 18 acres and the other two 12 acres each. The defendants introduced pa-rol evidence to the effect that in making the conveyance to defendant Clarkson it was appellant’s intention to convey the land in controversy, which had been conveyed to him by Bundy by the deed first above mentioned. One of the questions submitted to the jury was what land appellant intended to convey to Clarkson by the deed of March, 1906, and the jury found that it was his intention to convey the land in controversy.
The superior title being thus shown to be in defendant Palmer, judgment was properly rendered against plaintiff in favor of the defendants, and must be affirmed.
Affirmed.
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