Short v. Price
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. Thomas H. Bn Yal. The bond for title was as follows : Republic of Texas, county of Fayette.
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Error from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. Thomas H. Bn Yal. The bond for title was as follows : Republic of Texas, county of Fayette. Know all men by these presents that I, Michael Short, resident citizen of the town of La Grange, Fayette county, and republic aforesaid, am held and firmly bound, and, by these presents, do bind myself, iny heirs and assigns unto John Short, of said county and republic, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, to the payment of which sum well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors administrators and assigns unto the said John Short, his…
1Opinion of the CourtHemphill, C. J.
Michael Short, the appellant, in the year 1842, executed his bond to convey to John Short one third of Ms headright league and labor of land so soon as the same should be located. John Short departed this life in 1847. In 1855 the bond was sold by an administrator de bonis non of the estate of John Short at public sale, and the appellee, Larkin F. Price, having become the purchaser, brought this suit for specific performance, and also for partition of the land patented to Michael Short for Ms headright, and that the portion due the appellee might be assigned to Mm in severalty.
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