Hunt v. Makemson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn. This case was complicated both by pleading and evidence, but is sufficiently stated by the opinion to properly understand the conclusions announced.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Chief Justice.
Hunt sued Makemson and Fisher to set aside a sheriff’s sale of two tracts of land, one of one hundred and sixty acres to Makemson for $25, the other of forty-four acres to Fisher for $15.25, had on the first Tuesday of August, 1880, by virtue of process under a judgment foreclosing a vendor’s lien on said tracts, in a suit by B. S. Bybee v. T. M. Warren. Hunt alleged that he was the owner of the judgment by purchase and transfer thereof; that the sale was made in violation of his instructions to the sheriff, and without any notice thereof on his part, and that the…
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