Eckert v. Lewis

OPINION OF THE COURT

PARKER, J.

Appellees brought suit to> establish and foreclose a vendor’s lien upon certain real estate in Dona Ana county, which they had conveyed to appellants, and for which -appellants had failed to pay. Appellants answered admitting most of the allegations oh the complaint, denying knowledge of some, and, by way of counterclaim, set up a copy of the contract of sale of the real estate involved; the payment of'$500 down on the date of the contract; that the title to the property was found to be defective, and that appellees thereupon agreed to file a .suit in the…