Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Pittman

COLLARD, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by B. H. Pittman, J. F. Gordon, and C. F. Childs to rescind and cancel their subscription note executed and delivered to the appellant railway company.

The note is as follows, viz.:

■“$250. Coleman, Texas, August 21, 1885.

“ In consideration that the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company shall agree to build a railway to the town of Coleman, in Coleman County, Texas, we, as one of the inducements for said company to build said road, jointly and severally promise and bind ourselves-to pay, on demand, to the order of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe…