Elder v. First National Bank

Texas Supreme Court

Elder v. First National Bank

44 S.W. 62, 91 Tex. 423, 1898 Tex. LEXIS 291

CourtTexas Supreme Court

DecidedJanuary 27, 1898

DocketApplication No. 1687.

StatusPublished

Cited by4 cases

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Elder v. First National Bank, 44 S.W. 62, 91 Tex. 423, 1898 Tex. LEXIS 291 (Tex. 1898).

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GAINES, Chief Justice.

We are not prepared to concur in the proposition upon which the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court. But in reply to the answer of Elder, the defendant in the trial court, that the title had failed to several of the small tracts embraced within the field notes of the deed made to him by *424 Carter, the plaintiff filed a supplemental petition in which it alleged in substance that Carter agreed to sell to defendant a certain tract of land well known ,to defendant, which as defendant also knew embraced neither of the smaller tracts, the title to which was alleged to have failed—but that by inadvertence and mistake the field notes in the deed as drawn embraced all of such tracts. These facts were established beyond controversy and make a case for the reformation of the instrument if such reformation were necessary for the purposes of this suit. But we think that the trial court in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction had the power to mete out exact justice between the parties, without a correction of the instrument. The deed as it stands conveys all the land which Carter agreed to sell and which the defendant agreed to purchase. Under the pleadings and evidence he cannot in a court of equity claim any abatement of the purchase money of land which was actually sold and conveyed to him, by the reason of the failure of title to other land which was not in fact sold, though it was inadvertently conveyed. The writ of error is therefore refused.

Writ of error refused.

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GAINES, Chief Justice.

We are not prepared to concur in the proposition upon which the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court. But in reply to the answer of Elder, the defendant in the trial court, that the title had failed to several of the small tracts embraced within the field notes of the deed made to him by *424 Carter, the plaintiff filed a supplemental petition in which it alleged in substance that Carter agreed to sell to defendant a certain tract of land well known ,to defendant, which as defendant also knew embraced neither of the smaller tracts, the title to which was alleged to have failed—but that by inadvertence and mistake the field notes in the deed as drawn embraced all of such tracts. These facts were established beyond controversy and make a case for the reformation of the instrument if such reformation were necessary for the purposes of this suit. But we think that the trial court in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction had the power to mete out exact justice between the parties, without a correction of the instrument. The deed as it stands conveys all the land which Carter agreed to sell and which the defendant agreed to purchase. Under the pleadings and evidence he cannot in a court of equity claim any abatement of the purchase money of land which was actually sold and conveyed to him, by the reason of the failure of title to other land which was not in fact sold, though it was inadvertently conveyed. The writ of error is therefore refused.

Writ of error refused.

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