Court Opinion

ID: 9680645
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:35:42.664819+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:29.849516
License: Public Domain

STEPHENSON, Justice
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent only to that portion of the opinion holding the title, to the 1.45 acre tract acquired by Abner McMurtry after the deed dated March 14, 1894, vested in John H. Kirby.
The words “said 425¾0 acres or more being made up of the following interests in the Estate of A. B. Hardin, to-wit: * * * ” indicated an intention on the part of the grantor to convey the specific interest in the land owned by grantor at the time of the conveyance, which grantor had acquired from the persons listed. It is my understanding of the “after-acquired title” law that the grantor would be estopped to claim title to any part of the land acquired by him after the date of such conveyance from any of the listed sources. The 1.45 acres tract involved in this case did not come to the grantor from one of those sources. Clark v. Gauntt, (Comm.App.) 138 Tex. 558, 161 S.W.2d 270; Wilson v. Wilson, Tex.Civ.App., 118 S.W.2d 403; Spangler v. Spangler, Tex.Civ.App., 42 S.W.2d 826.