Evans v. Jackson

SPEER, Associate Justice.

This suit was filed by Sam Evans as plaintiff to recover from J. M. Jackson and B. F. Sprinkle upon a note for the sum of $335, dated October 30, 1883, executed by said Jackson, payable to said Evans, for a part of the purchase price of a lot in the city of Fort Worth, and secured by an express vendor’s lien on such lot. The lot was conveyed by Jackson to defendant B. F. Sprinkle .on February 16, 1884, who assumed the payment of the note. The petition sought a foreclosure of the vendor’s lien. Sam Evans died pending the suit, and William Evans was properly substituted…