Williamson v. Huffman

FINLEY, Chief Justice.

J. A. Williamson, as executor of the estate of one Mrs. C. C. Brown, deceased, as plaintiff, by a first amended original petition, sued upon a note for $500, alleged to have been made and delivered by defendant to plaintiff’s testatrix, alleging that it had been given as consideration for and purchase money of the lands in controversy, and plaintiff prayed for judgment for the amount due on the note with foreclosure of the vendor’s lien reserved in the deed from plaintiff’s testatrix to the defendant.

To this amended pleading the defendant answered, (1) by general denial,…