Smith v. Pate
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Bell County.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The defendants in error, Martha Pate et ah, brought suit against the plaintiffs in error in the District Court of Bell County to recover a certain tract of land described in the petition. The facts necessary to determine the question involved on this writ of error are substantially found by the trial court as follows: Robert Holliday resided in Texas in 1878 and was the owner of the land in controversy. On November 30, 1878, Holliday sold the land to W. L. Jones for $1500, and conveyed it to him by deed which retained the vendor’s lien for three notes of $500 each,…
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