Caldwell, Hughes & Patterson v. Yarbrough
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Henderson County Court; C. D. Owens, Judge. Action by Caldwell, Hughes & Patterson against C. R. Yarbrough. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Appellee owned a tract of land in Henderson county, and, it seems from his testimony, in September or October, 1912, verbally agreed with Tom'Dewberry and Sam McDonald to sell same to them.
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Appeal from Henderson County Court; C. D. Owens, Judge. Action by Caldwell, Hughes & Patterson against C. R. Yarbrough. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Appellee owned a tract of land in Henderson county, and, it seems from his testimony, in September or October, 1912, verbally agreed with Tom'Dewberry and Sam McDonald to sell same to them. Dewberry and McDonald, according to the understanding then reached, were to give appellee a mortgage on the crop, or a part of it, they expected to grow on the land, to secure the payment of a part of the sum they were to pay for it. Dewberry…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, O. J.
(after stating the facts as above). Notwithstanding it appeared from testimony that the mortgages from McDonald and Dewberry to appellants were made and duly registered as required by law before the time when said McDonald and Dewberry made the mortgages to appellee, and further appeared that the indebtedness of McDonald and' Dewberry to appellants which the mortgages to them were made to secure was unsatisfied; notwithstanding the admission in appellee’s pleadings that he had “taken charge of and converted four bales of cotton raised by said Dewberry and McDonald,” and the…
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