Williams v. Finley
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal fr’om Eastland County. Finley sued Williams and others for recovery and foreclosure on purchase money notes. He had judgment after allowing for the expense of vendees in acquiring an outstanding title of the state. This was affirmed on appeal by defendant, who thereupon obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
Finley, one of the defendants in error brought this action against H. T. Armstrong, A. C. Williams and Mrs. A. C. Williams, to recover of the two first named defendants the amount due on four promissory notes for $210 each, besides interest and stipulated attorneys’ fees, executed to plaintiff by Armstrong, for part of the purchase price of land conveyed by the former to the latter, and subsequently conveyed by the latter to Williams, who assumed payment of the notes, and to foreclose a lien reserved in the notes and deed to secure the promised payments.
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