Texas American Bank/Levelland v. Morgan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a cotenant may not 8 mortgage the property of another cotenant
• stating that “jurisdictions [that] have decided this question ... have uniformly agreed that one cotenant may not encumber the other cotenant’s interest without consent” and that “a grantor can only give that which he owns”
• stating that “jurisdictions [that] have decided this question . . . have uniformly agreed that one cotenant may not encumber the other cotenant’s interest without consent” and that “a grantor can only give that which he owns”
• \The jurisdictions which have decided this question... have uniformly agreed that one cotenant may not encumber the other cotenant's interest without consent\
• “Our decision is buttressed by the evidence that at the time [one of the defendants] executed the mortgage, the [plaintiff] was on constructive notice, by reason of recordation, that [the defendant] was merely a joint tenant.”
• “Our decision is buttressed by the evidence that at the time [one of 6 the defendants] executed the mortgage, the [plaintiff] was on constructive notice, by reason of recordation, that [the defendant] was merely a joint tenant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).