1976 James F. Ball-Quit Claim Deed

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BUS: CA3-4501 e e RES: MO 7-7B59 L1AM ES F. BALL ATTORNEY AT LAW P. O. BOX 52950 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77052 December 3, 197.5 City of LaPorte Honorable Mayor and City Commissioners 124 South Second Street LaPorte, Texas 77.571 Re: Request for Quit claim from City to present owners of lots 16,17, 18, and 19, Block 18.5, Town of LaPorte, Harris County, Texas. Gentlemen: In connection with the ownership of the captioned property I have examined the records of Harris County, Texas, and the same discloses a cloud on the title thereof by reason of a tax suit filed in 1923 under Cause number 104781, by the City of LaPorte against one C. S. Penfield and C. E. Hunn, Defendants. The suit being brought for d~linquent taxes owning on parts of said lots. A careful search of the records does not disclose evidence that said Defendants at any time ever held a vested legal interest in the property. However, a judgment in favor of the City was obtained and a subsequent Sheriff's sale and Deed to the City was given by a Deed recorded in Volume 3302, Page 433, Deed Records. It is therefore respectively requested that this matter be placed on the agenda of the next meeting for consideration by the Mayor and Commissiorers December 1.5, 197.5, whereupon a resolution be adopted and approved by Commissioners authorizing their Mayor by appropriate instrument to release,and quit claim unto present owners all of the right, title, interest and claim which the City of LaPorte has or may have acquired by virtue of the hereinabove tax suit and Sheriff's Deed in and to Lots 16, 17, 18, and 19, Block 18.5, of Town of LaPorte, Harris County, Texas, according to the map or plat thereof recorded in Volume 72.5, Page 253, Deed Records of said County. Very truly yours, ~F~d:~ cc: Mr. Knox Askins 122 S. Broadway LaPorte, Texas Decker McKim Realtors P.O. Box 1343 LaPorte, Texas