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18 Tex. 113

Earley v. Sterrett

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1856

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1856-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. R. E. B. Baylor. Sait by appellee against appellants, commenced April 8th, 1840, for a specific performance of a bond for title, as follows : -of the county of Washington, are held and firmly bound unto John N. Wilson, of the said county in the penal sum -of one thousand dollars, good and lawful money of the Republic of Texas, to be paid to the said John N. Wilson, his heirs, attorneys, executors, administrators or assigns ; to which payment, well…

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Wheeler, J.

¶1The objection to the judgment, that the evidence does not sustain the plaintiff’s right to recover the particular land sued for, is not tenable. The supposed uncertainty arises from the mistake and discrepancy in the bond and deed under which the plaintiff claims, respecting the original grantee of the land. But both instruments contain other matter of description sufficient to render it perfectly certain what land was really intended to be conveyed. There can be no difficulty or doubt respecting the identity of the land. The misdescription in the particular indicated, therefore, is not material.

¶2The defendants introduced no evidence in support of their *117pleas of the Statute of Limitations. Less than ten years elapsed from the maturity of the obligation to the bringing of the suit. And under the decision of this Court in Holman v. Crisswell, (15 Tex. R. 394,) the Statute did not commence to run, until there was some act indicative of an intention to hold adversely to the plaintiff, or those under whom he claims. There was no such act until the sale to the defendant Henderson, on the 13th of April, 1847. There is no evidence of any possession by Early ; nor is there any evidence that Henderson went into possession upon his purchase. But if be did, three years did not elapse before the bringing of the suit. There is nothing in the record to support the defence of the Statute of Limitations.

¶3The defendant Henderson eannot claim a right to hold the bond, as against the plaintiff, as an innocent purchaser without notice of the prior sale; for the plaintiff's bond for title was filed for record and recorded shortly after it was executed, in April, 1840. Besides, the defendant, it seems, had actual notice of its existence. When the plaintiff purchased of one whose evidence of title was recorded, he was under no necessity to enquire whether the vendor of his vendor had made another sale of the land subsequent to the time of the recording of his vendor’s title; nor would he be affected by such subsequent sale. The plaintiff, by his purchase, took all the title and was substituted to all the rights of his vendor.

¶4There is no error in the judgment, and it is affirmed.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

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