Court Opinion

ID: 9827686
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:46:28.593459+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:34.535816
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellees sought to show common source' by introducing in evidence the deed of trust from W. E. Gillespie and Chas. J. Gillespie to J. H. McLeary, trustee, which conveyed, “among other lands,” survey No. 236 and 193 acres out of survey No. 235, and was dated March 25, 1897. It is clear, under the decisions cited in our former opinion, that the introduction of said instrument failed to show common source because of the fact that it was executed by two persons, and did not show, nor was there any evidence to show, that W. F. Gillespie alone claimed title to survey No. 236. Appellants introduced in evidence a deed of trust from Mollie A. Taylor and husband to W. F. Gillespie, trustee, to secure a note in favor of Abigail E. Gillespie for §1,400, dated June 20, 1889, conveying all of survey No. 236 and 210 acres out of survey- No. 235, and also a deed of trust from D. W. Gillespie to Chas. J. Gillespie, trustee, to secure a note for §1,000 in favor of Abigail E. Gillespie, dated December 21, 1891, and conveying part of survey No. 235. Appellees contend in their motion for rehearing that the deed of trust by W. F. Gillespie and Chas. Gillespie to McLeary conveyed the same land and was for the purpose of securing the same* debt as the one from Mrs. M. A. Taylor and husband to W. F. Gillespie, trustee. A comparison of the instruments shows that survey 236 is conveyed in each of them, but there is a discrepancy in the acreage out of survey No. 235, and, besides, the one given by W. F. Gillespie and Ohas. Gillespie conveyed other lands, not described in the statement of facts. We fail to see how appellees can assert that the debt is the same, “plus the accrued interest,” for the note for $1,400 was dated June 20, 1889, and that for $1,700 was dated March 25, 1897. It is far more probable that the deed of trust by W. F. and Chas. Gillespie to Mc-Leary was given to secure a renewal of the notes secured by both of the other deeds of trust, for it mentions both and provides that its release shall operate as a release of both of them. But even this is a mere guess, for it is not even shown that the lands conveyed therein are the same as those conveyed in the two former deeds of trust, and, even if they were shown to be the same, it is still impossible to say whether W. F. and Chas. Gillespie undertook to represent the grantors in the former deeds of trust and to renew the same, or whether they acquired the titles of said grantors and gave a note for $1,700, and executed a deed of trust upon such lands or a part thereof, and others, to secure the payment of such note, or whether they acquired some other claim to said lands. We therefore conclude that the evidence fails to show that appellants claim survey No. 236 wholly and entirely by a title acquired through W. F. Gillespie. It is a matter of conjecture whether Chas. Gillespie claimed any interest in survey No. 236, and, if so, what interest. It therefore follows that ap-pellees have failed to show title by common source to survey. 236, and have failed to show such a title to any particular interest therein, for the extent of the interest therein held by appellants under W. F. Gillespie is not made to appear.
We are unable to agree with appellees in their contention that the judgment should be affirmed on the theory that prior possession of survey 236 was shown to have been held by W. F. Gillespie prior to 1889 of such character as to suijport the judgment.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.