Miller v. Lemm

276 S.W. 211
CourtTexas Commission of Appeals
DecidedOctober 14, 1925
DocketNo. 441-3922
StatusPublished
Cited by12 cases

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Bluebook
Miller v. Lemm, 276 S.W. 211 (Tex. Super. Ct. 1925).

Opinion

POWELL, P. J.-

Eor a statement of the case, we adopt the following from the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals:

“The facts of this^case are as follows:
“ (1) On October l' 1914, D. E. Kramer and his wife owned and held as community property the land in controversy .in -this suit. On said date defendant J. B. Earthing Lumber Company instituted suit in one of the district courts of-Harris county against D. F. Kramer on a debt in the sum of $1,384.07, and on the same day sued o.ut a writ of attachment, and caused it to be levied by the sheriff of Harris county on the following described property of the defendant D. F. Kramer (omitting tracts 1, 2, and 3):
“ ‘Those certain lots lying and being situated in the John Austin two league grant in Harris county, Texas, north of White Oak bayou, each being a part of the former Grota homestead, and part of the German townsite survey, each also being a part of a certain two league tract of land conveyed by E. L. Perry and Louise Perry to I. R. McCasland. * * *
“ ‘Tract No. 4 being that certain lot, tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in Harris county, Texas, and being out of and a part of the two acre tract hereinabove mentioned, conveyed by F. L. Perry and Louise Perry to I. R. McCasland, described by metes and bounds as follows:
“ ‘Beginning at a point on the east line of said two acre tract 50 feet south of the northwest corner of said two acre tract;
“ ‘Thence south along the east line of said two acre tract 50 feet for corner in said east line;
“ ‘Thence east parallel with the north line of said two acre tract 100 feet for corner;
“ ‘Thence north parallel with the east line of said two acre tract 50 feet for corner;
“ ‘Thence west parallel with the north line [213]*213of said two acre tract 100 feet to the place of ■beginning.’
“The sheriff’s return on this writ of attachment, showing the levy as made, was duly recorded by the county clerk of Harris county in the attachment lien records.
“(2) On the 10th day of March, A. D. 1915, appellant Eli Lemm loaned to D. E. Kramer $1,200 in money, for which he took his note, which was secured by a deed of trust executed by D. E. Kramer on the following described-tract of land:
“ ‘Lot 9 in block 4 in Gewnantown addition to the city of Houston, out of the John Austin survey in Harris county, Texas, said lot having a frontage of 50 feet on Houston avenue and a depth of 100 feet running back at right angles with said avenue, the S. W. corner of said lot 9 being on the east line of said Houston avenue, at 100 feet from the S. W. corner of the I. R. McCasland homestead tract and the N. E. corner of said lot 9, being on the east line of said Houston ave. at 150 feet from the said S. W. corner of said I. R. McCasland homestead tract.’
“The appellees in this case contend that the tract No. 4, as described in the sheriff’s return, is the same land described in Lemm’s deed of
“(3) On the 23d day of November, 1915, J. B. Earthing Lumber Company secured a judgment against D. F. Kramer for the amount of its debt, with a foreclosure of the attachment lien, under which judgment the property was duly sold and bought in by J. B. Earthing Lumber Company on the first Tuesday in February, 1916, and- on the 25th day of February, 1916, J. B. Earthing Lumber Company instituted a suit in trespass to try title against D. E. Kramer, in which judgment was rendered on the 24th day of April, 1917, in its favor against Kramer for the title and possession of the property sued for, which included lot No. 4, as described in the sheriff’s return.
“(4) On the unpaid balance of its judgment against Kramer J. B. Earthing Lumber Company sued out a pluries execution on the 26th day of September, 1917, and had it levied on the following described tract of land:
“ ‘That certain tract or parcel of land out of the part of the two acres of land conveyed by Louise Perry and husband E. E. Perry to I. R. McCasland by deed dated July 11, 1894, and recorded in volume 79, page 183, of the Deed Records of Harris county, Texas, being also a part of the Old Grota homestead in the Germantown S. D. of the John Austin two league grant in Harris county, Texas, and being more fully described as follows:
“ ‘Beginning at a point in the south line of the McCasland two acre tract at a point 78 feet east of the east line of Houston ave.
“ ‘Thence north parallel with the east line of Houston ave. 100 feet;
“ ‘Thence east parallel with the south line of said two acre tract 22 feet;
“ ‘Thence north parallel with the east line of Houston ave. 5 feet;
“ ‘Thence east parallel with the south line of said two acre tract 55 feet;
“ ‘Thence south parallel with the east line of Houston ave. 105 feet to the south line of said two acre tract;
“ ‘Thence west along the south line of said two acre tract to the place of beginning, in the city of Houston, Harris county, Texas.’
“And under a sale under such execution bought the lot, taking the sheriff’s deed thereto on the 6th day of November, 1917.
“(5) On the 28th day of December, 1917, by its general warranty deed, J. B. Earthing Lumber Company conveyed lot No. 4, as described in the sheriff’s return, and the lot bought by it on the 6th day of November, 1917, of Mr§. Betty W. Miller, who, on the 14th day of January, 1918, by her general warranty deed, conveyed lot No. 4 to defendant Genusa. Lot No. 4 in the' sheriff’s return and the lot described in Lemm’s deed of trust — it being the contention of appellees that these two descriptions cover the same property — and the lot bought by Earthing Lumber Company on the 6th day of November, 1917, constitute all the property in controversy in this suit.
“(6) On the 7th day of March, 1917, D. E. Kramer conveyed all the property in controversy, together with other property situated on the McCasland two acre tract, to Earl York, who, on the same day, reconveyed it to appellant Mrs. Elizabeth Kramer, wife of D. E. Kramer.
“(7) On the trial of this cause the evidence showed that the McCasland two acre tract referred to in the sheriff’s return was not conveyed to him by E. L. Perry and wife, but by E. E. Perry and wife. By parol evidence, the Grota homestead was located. Partition was shown between a Mr. Grota and Mrs. Perry, and the two acre 'McCasland tract was located on the ground as being bounded on the east by Houston avenue, on the north by North street, on the west by the Depenbroek property, and on the south by Payne street. It was further shown that the original northwest corner of the Mc-Casland two acre tract is 25 feet in Houston avenue; that is, a strip 25 feet wide off the west end of this tract was dedicated by McCasland for street purposes, and is now a part of Houston avenue.

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