Minero v. Ross and Masterson
Texas Supreme Court
Error to- the Court of Civil Appeals, Eighth District, in an appeal from El Paso County. Boss and Masterson sued the Banco Minero, a Mexican corporation, and had judgment. Defendant appealed, and obtained writ of error on its affirmance.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
The source of this suit was a contract entered into on May 8, 1907, between A. H. Kraft, John Fulkerson and 'Don Alberto Terrazas, on the one hand, and J. 0. Ross and H. Masterson, citizens of this State, the defendants in error, on the other, for the sale to the latter by Terrazas, a citizen of the Republic of Mexico, of a large body of Mexican land, comprising about 125,000 acres and known as the Carillo grant, at the price of $1 gold, per acre, $10,000, gold, to be paid Terrazas by May 12th, and $40,000, gold, to be deposited by Ross and Masterson to their own credit in the Banco Minero, a…
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