Jones v. Porter
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Galveston. The ease was tried before Hon. Peter W. Gray, one of the district judges. The record is frightfully voluminous,- and it contains a full history of the hopes and prospects of building a great city at La Baile, with not a little which in the past, and prospectively, affects the growth of Galveston and Bolivar. The most to be deduced from the whole record is, that interest can destroy the most sanguine expectations of castle builders and city builders.
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Error from Galveston. The ease was tried before Hon. Peter W. Gray, one of the district judges. The record is frightfully voluminous,- and it contains a full history of the hopes and prospects of building a great city at La Baile, with not a little which in the past, and prospectively, affects the growth of Galveston and Bolivar. The most to be deduced from the whole record is, that interest can destroy the most sanguine expectations of castle builders and city builders. The facts which controlled this case were about as follows : The plaintiff in error, Jones, brought two suits against the…
1Opinion of the CourtDonley, J.
This was a suit by the plaintiff in error, who was plaintiff below, alleging that the various agreements made between himself and defendant were in effect a mortgage of the lands, for the purpose of securing the debt owing to defendant, and a prayer that he might redeem, &c.
A decree was made, that the appellant redeem on paying to appellee the debt ascertained to he due during the term of the court at which the same was rendered; and that, upon the payment of the money ascertained by the decree to be due the defendant, the lands be discharged from the incumbrance held by defendant on same,…
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