McFaddin v. Williams

Citations

• 58 Tex. 625
• 1883 Tex. LEXIS 76

Syllabus

<p>1. Laches.—An executory contract to convey an interest in land on the procurement of a patent therefor, and for services rendered to obtain it, will not be enforced after the -lapse of more than twenty years after the right of action accrued, during which limitation could run, in the absence of facts to satisfactorily account for and excuse so long a delay.</p> <p>2. Same—Presumption.— After so great a lapse of time the presumption will be that some other arrangement was made between the parties, which satisfied or annulled the bond under which the land was to be conveyed in consideration of procuring the patent.</p> <p>3. Cases approved.—Reed v. West, 49 Tex., 248, and Glasscock v. Nelson, 26 Tex., 154, approved.</p>