Bridges v. Reynolds
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. J. D. McAdoo. The assignments of error which are noticed in the opinion are as follows: 1. The court erred in rendering judgment enforcing the vendor’s lien without the intervention of a jury. 2. The court erred in enforcing the vendor’s lien and ordering a sale of the land without a sufficient description of the same. 5. The court erred in rendering judgment by default upon a petition up tin which service was accepted, which was…
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Error from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. J. D. McAdoo. The assignments of error which are noticed in the opinion are as follows: 1. The court erred in rendering judgment enforcing the vendor’s lien without the intervention of a jury. 2. The court erred in enforcing the vendor’s lien and ordering a sale of the land without a sufficient description of the same. 5. The court erred in rendering judgment by default upon a petition up tin which service was accepted, which was not filed the first day of1 the term. 6. The court erred in not rendering judgment “ for dollars and parts of dollars,”…
1Opinion of the Court
Reeves, Associate Justice.
This was a suit brought by Reynolds against Bridges on the following described note:
“$1500.00. .
“By the twenty-fifth day of December, A. D. 1871, I promise to pay J. J. Cason, or bearer, fifteen hundred dollars in gold, or its equivalent in H. S. currency, with ten per cent, interest from the 35th day of December, 1870, until paid, it being in part payment of certain tracts of land this day deeded to T. J. Coffey by the said J. J. Cason. This October 8th, 1870.
(Signed) “War. Bridges.’’
The suit was brought to the March term, 1873, of the District Court of Titus…
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