Farmer v. Simpson
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Rusk. This suit was brought by the defendant in error on a note of hand, a part of the consideration of a sale of land by Simpson to Farmer, and praying to enforce the vendor’s lien on the 'land by a sale of the land, to satisfy the note. The plaintiff alleged that he had given the defendant a bond for title.
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Error from Rusk. This suit was brought by the defendant in error on a note of hand, a part of the consideration of a sale of land by Simpson to Farmer, and praying to enforce the vendor’s lien on the 'land by a sale of the land, to satisfy the note. The plaintiff alleged that he had given the defendant a bond for title. There was another suit pending at the same time between the same parties for enforcing the vendor’s lien on the same land, in satisfaction of a judgment previously obtained by Simpson against Farmer, on two other notes given by Farmer, which, with the one.sued on, constituted…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb', J.
The plaintiff in error assigns the following errors, on which he claims a reversal of the judgment of the court hclow :
1st. In sustaining exceptionsto the defendant’s pleas.
2d. In permitting the promissory note alleged to be given for the land to go to the jury as full proof of a contract for laud as required by the statute of frauds?
3d. In permitting oral testimony of facts, which must, legally, exist in writing., 4th. In declining to give the charge asked, and in giving the charge excepted to by the defendant’s counsel.
We do not propose to consider the errors assigned in the order in which…
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