Hare v. Henderson

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was to recover the title and possession of 640 acres of land in Orange County, Texas. The claim of title was: A deed from defendant’s parents, dated October 11, 1902, to Frank Mills, reciting $6,-717, paid in cash and the reservation of a vendor’s lien, to secure a note for $2,783; and a deed, dated October 24, 1902, from Mills to plaintiff Clara blare, then Clara Brown. As to the vendor’s lien note, it was alleged that it and all rights of the vendor on account thereof, had become barred and extinguished many years ago, but there was a tender in the…