Roller v. Holly
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS. This was an action instituted July 14, 1894, by the plaintiff Roller in the District Court of Limestone County, Texas, to recovera judgment against Stephen Holly and William Holly upon five promissory notes for $228 each, dated January 1, 1890, payable to plaintiff, for the purchase price of a tract of one hundred and fourteen acres of land in that county, sold by him to them, and also to…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS. This was an action instituted July 14, 1894, by the plaintiff Roller in the District Court of Limestone County, Texas, to recovera judgment against Stephen Holly and William Holly upon five promissory notes for $228 each, dated January 1, 1890, payable to plaintiff, for the purchase price of a tract of one hundred and fourteen acres of land in that county, sold by him to them, and also to foreclose a vendor’s lien upon, the land to the amount of such notes. To this action Joseph Peoples, H. W. Williams and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Briefly stated, the case is this: Boiler, the plaintiff, who was a resident of Yirginia, bought this land in January, 1887, gave a note in .part payme.-t for $216.17, which passed into the hands of McClintic & Proctor, who brought suit thereon for a personal judgment against the plaintiff, and for the fore closure of a vendor’s lien upon the land; served plaintiff with notice of the suit in Virginia; December 30, 1890, to appear in Texak January 5, 1891, and took judgment against him by default January 9, 1891, for $276.65, and fora foreclosure of the lien. Upon a sale in pursuance of this…
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