Ramirez v. Smith
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Francis Smith sued Skidmore to foreclose a vendor’s lien on land, making the plaintiffs in error, Bamirez et al., defendants as claimants of an interest therein. These defendants, as to whom the suit was one for the recovery of land, appealed from a judgment in favor of plaintiff, and on its affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
Defendant in error brought this suit against F. O. Skidmore to recover the amount due on certain promissory notes of which he was the maker and to foreclose a vendor’s lien on two tracts of land, one known as the “Retaches” and the other as the Robert Moore survey, for the purchase money of which the notes were given. Plaintiffs in error were made defendants as claimants of an interest in the land. Plaintiffs in error pleaded their rights as they will hereafter appear. Skidmore defended the action on the notes, alleging that by reason of the claim of his…
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