Dupree v. Mansur

This is a bill brought by the petitioner to quiet title to a lot of land nr Waco, Texas: A cross-bill was filed bj^ the respondent to establish and foreclose a vendor’s lien and mortgage upon the same land. The facts, so far as necessary to a decision, are thesé. One Bailey conveyéd one undivided half of the land in question to William E. Dupree, partly in consideration of five notes, for nine- hundred dollars each, maturing in one, two, three, four and five years respectively, from December 31,1894, the date of the conveyance. By the words of the deed, “the vendor’s lien is hereby reserved…