Ximines v. Smith

No impartial mind can investigate this case without being struck forcibly with the manifest injustice which has been done, and yet it may be somewhat *50difficult for us to point out wherein the law has been violated. Let us first look at a few of the leading facts. Melchoir and Ursula Ximines were man and wife in September, 1860, at which time Melchoir, having inherited certain real property from his mother in the city of San Antonio, sold the same to S. S. Smith for the sum of $2000 on deferred payments, for which two notes are given payable in one and two years from date. At this time Ursula…