Dodge v. Signor

TABLTON, Chief Justice.

As the payee of two promissory notes executed by the appellees E. H. and W. G. Signor, bearing date November 26, 1889, each in the principal sum of $800, and secured by a vendor’s lien on certain realty in Quanah, Texas, the appellant brought this suit against the makers, the appellees herein.

The notes, according to their terms, matured respectively on November 26, 1890, and November 26, 1891. Contemporaneously with the execution of the notes by the appellees, the appellant executed to them a deed to the land referred to in-the notes, reciting the retaining of the…