Jackson v. Parks

1. A writing which states that the undersigned promises to pay to the payee on a certain date a certain sum of money, with interest, and attorney’s fees if collected by an attorney at law, and recites that it “is given for the purchase-price of the property next hereafter described,” to wit a described mule, and which contains no words from which it could be construed that the title to the mule was reserved by the seller until payment of the purchase-money, but which provides that “to further secure the payment of this debt I [we] hereby sell and convey to the said payee and his assigns the…