Martin v. Somervell County

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by defendant in error in the District Court o'f Somervell County on the 31st day of March, 1897, upon a certain note for $500, with its interest, and to foreclose a mortgage on certain real estate. The note sued -on was executed on the 3d day of March, 1884, payable five years after date, with interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, payable annually. The defendant, among other things, pleaded the four years statute of limitation.

Briefly stated, the evidence, among other things, tended to show that on December 2, 1892, J. J. Matthews, then…