Cunningham v. Taylor
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. John Hancock. On the 30th of April, 1852, Campbell Taylor agreed to sell to John B>. Slocumb a lot or parcel of land in the town of Bastrop, for which the latter gave his two promissory notes for $450 each, one due 28th August, 1853, and the other 28th February, 1855; the former giving his bond to convey the land upon payment of the said notes.
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Error from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. John Hancock. On the 30th of April, 1852, Campbell Taylor agreed to sell to John B>. Slocumb a lot or parcel of land in the town of Bastrop, for which the latter gave his two promissory notes for $450 each, one due 28th August, 1853, and the other 28th February, 1855; the former giving his bond to convey the land upon payment of the said notes. In March, 1855, Taylor brought suit on the notes in Bastrop District Court, against Leander C. Cunningham, administrator of said Slocumb who had died in the mean time; alleging in the petition that said…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
This cause having been submitted by the defendant in error on a suggestion of delay, we will examine whether there was any sufficient cause for suing out the writ of error.
The plaintiffs in error, who are plaintiffs below, sought a perpetual injunction restraining an order of sale on a judgment «recovered against them by the defendant in error, in the District Court of Bastrop county, on two notes of hand given for the purchase money of a lot of land in the town of Bastrop; the Court decreeing also that the premises should be sold in satisfaction of the vendor’s lien. The…
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