Morris v. Gaines

GAIUES, Associate Justice.

The appellant brought this suit to recover of appellee a sum due upon a promissory note, and to enforce a vendor’s lien upon a tract of land. The defendant, the appellee here, pleaded in reconvention, alleging that he had sold to the plaintiff by a parol contract a parcel of land in the town of Rockwall, for which the latter had agreed to pay the sum of $1000, as follows: He was to pay off a certain promissory note given by the defendant to one Whit-comb for a part of the purchase money of the lot upon a previous sale by Whitcomb to defendant, and the balance of the…