Collingsworth v. King

The respondent instituted this suit to recover the sum of $22,307.94, and to foreclose a vendor’s lien. The sum sued for included principal, interest and attorney’s fees claimed to be due and owing on the vendor’s lien notes numbered three and four of a series of five notes which had been executed on January 1, 1949 by M. H. Coleman in favor of Thomas S. Wallace as a part of the purchase price for certain lots of parcels of land situated in Cameron County, Texas. The notes involved were due and payable at Harlingen, Texas, on September 1, 1951 and September 1, 1952, respectively, and…