Williams v. Murphy

The appellant brought this suit in the District Court to recover the possession of Lot No. 2, in Block No. 1, in the town of Denton.

John L. Love joy purchased said lot, on the 23d day of March, 1859, from P. P. Scruggs, giving his note for the sum of eight hundred dollars, payable on the 1st day of January, 1860, and signed as security by James M. Smoot. There was an express contract between the parties reserving the vendor’s lien, and this contract was witnessed by the note, which note was recorded in the office of the county clerk of Denton county, in. the miscellaneous • records, on the…