Harris County Houston Ship Channel Nav. Dist. v. Williams

GRAVES, Justice.

As tried out below, the suit was by the appellee against the Greater Houston Improvement Company, a corporation, to recover the alleged unpaid balance due on fourteen vendor’s lien notes executed by the improvement company to Mrs. Rosa C. Allen on June 27th of 1927, as the deferred part of the purchase price for 1388.44 acres of land in the William Vince and Callahan & Vince surveys in Harris county conveyed by her to it on that date, and to foreclose vendor’s and deed of trust liens contemporaneously retained to secure the payment of the notes on 973.93 acres of the 1388.44…