Van Hook v. Simmons

Citations

• 25 Tex. 323

Syllabus

<p>If the grantee of land alter or destroy his title deed, yet, it is said, his title to the land is not gone. It passed to him by the deed; the deed has performed its office, as an instrument of conveyance, and its continued existence is not necessary to the continuance of title in the grantee, hut the estate remains in him until.it has passed to another by some mode of conveyance recognized by law.</p>