Ellis v. Singletary
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from San Jacinto. Tried below before Hon. J. E. Burnett. James Hogue purchased from Taylor and Davis a tract of land in San Jacinto county, (then Polk county,) on Trinity river, known as “the Cedar Landing Tract,” containing four hundred and fifty acres. Hogue sold the land to the appellant, John Ellis, before the title had been made to him, and procured the deed from Taylor and Davis direct to Ellis.
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Appeal from San Jacinto. Tried below before Hon. J. E. Burnett. James Hogue purchased from Taylor and Davis a tract of land in San Jacinto county, (then Polk county,) on Trinity river, known as “the Cedar Landing Tract,” containing four hundred and fifty acres. Hogue sold the land to the appellant, John Ellis, before the title had been made to him, and procured the deed from Taylor and Davis direct to Ellis. Ellis sold to Kirksey, and received in part payment a note for $1,250, carrying with it a vendor’s lien upon the land. This note Ellis transferred to Hogue, and Hogue transferred it to…
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G. W. Davis,
for rehearing.
Appellant asks the court to grant a rehearing in this cause. To grant a rehearing that the court may re-examine the grounds of its decision, could not, it is believed, work any possible injury to any one.
*42Under such a view of the case, we ask the leave of the court to submit such reasons as have suggested themselves why a rehearing should be granted. If it shall he found upon close examination that the equities of the case have not been reached, or that substantial justice has not been done, then of course a rehearing should he granted.
It is submitted as a general…
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