Spencer v. Jones
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Erath County. Jones sued Chapman, Spencer, et al. and obtained judgment foreclosing a vendor’s lien, from which Spencer appealed, and, on affirmance of the judgment, obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Jones sued A. A. Chapman and R. B. Spencer, G. W. Simpson, and William C. Vowell to recover of Simpson as maker and Chapman as indorser the amount of three negotiable promissory notes, executed August 2, 1892, by Simpson, payable to Chapman, for a tract of 105 acres of land, a part- of the G. Rockfeller survey, in Erath County, which was conveyed by Chapman to Simpson by deed of even date with the notes, a vendor’s lien being retained in the face of the deed. It was sought to subordinate to the lien of the notes sued on a prior lien claimed by R. B. Spencer upon that…
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