Herring v. Houston National Exchange Bank

delivered the opinion of the court. .

The following from the certificate of the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District is used as a statement of the case: '

“On the 11th day of December, 1920, the prison commissioners of Texas purchased from the Ft. Bend Cotton Oil Company, for the use of the prison system, about three acres of land situated in Richmond, Ft. Bend County, Texas, on which were located the machinery, buildings, and other things, constituting the Ft. Bend Cotton Oil Company’s cotton seed oil mill. In part consideration for said property said prison…