Bridges v. Johnson & Muldrow

Citations

• 69 Tex. 714
• 7 S.W. 506
• 1888 Tex. LEXIS 926

Syllabus

<p>1. Limitation — Homestead.—Naked possession of land for ten years of the character prescribed in the ten years statute of limitation, invests the possessor with a title as absolute as if it had been acquired by patent from the State, and on which he may sustain an action of trespass to try title. If the homestead of the family of one holding such possession is on the land, no part of it can be alienated by parol. '</p> <p>3. Same- — A parol contract of sale can not be enforced against such possessor through the operation against him of an estoppel in pais, when the plaintiff setting up such estoppel was not caused by such parol contract to change his position for the worse, and when the possessor on his part acquired no right of property, of contract, or of remedy.</p>