COWDEN v. BELL

No. 13021.

293 S.W.2d 611 (1956)

George COWDEN et al., Appellants, v. W. H. BELL, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied September 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. L. Kuykendall, Austin, Fritz Sorrell, Lincoln Clark, Pearsall, for appellant.

Pope & Pope, Laredo, Magus F. Smith, McAllen, for appellee.


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 1/12 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...

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