Riddle v. McKinney
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. J. G. Hazlewood. This was an action upon a promissory note for the purchase money of land and to foreclose the vendor’s lien. The trial resulted in a judgment for plaintiff, Thomas P. McKinney. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
Appellee brought this suit in the court below against appellant on a promissory note for four hundred dollars, and to enforce a vendor’s lien upon a tract of land for the purchase money of which the note was given. Certain credits were allowed in the petition. The appellant pleaded certain other credits, about which no question is made in this court, and also set up in reconvention a counter claim against appellee. In support of the latter he alleged in his answer that, being indebted to appellee in the sum of seven hundred dollars, besides interest, appellant…
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