Durrell v. Farwell
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from Brewster County. In the petition for writ of error, it is stated that the defendants in error (except Mrs. E. L. Gage and the Presidio Live Stock Company) instituted suit in District Court of Brewster County, Texas, on February 10, 1893, against said Mrs. E. L. Gage and the Presidio Live Stock Company, for the sum of $87,665 and the foreclosure of a mortgage lien on 49,960 acres of land situated in…
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from Brewster County. In the petition for writ of error, it is stated that the defendants in error (except Mrs. E. L. Gage and the Presidio Live Stock Company) instituted suit in District Court of Brewster County, Texas, on February 10, 1893, against said Mrs. E. L. Gage and the Presidio Live Stock Company, for the sum of $87,665 and the foreclosure of a mortgage lien on 49,960 acres of land situated in Brewster and Buchel Counties; alleging that said Presidio Live Stock Company had given said bonds and had failed to pay them;…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
—Farwell and others sued the Presidio Live Stock Company for a balance of $87,665, claimed to be due upon 220 bonds of said company, and also made H. C. Durrell, Anna D. Gage, executrix of the last will of E. L. Gage, deceased, and C. B. Mower, trustee, parties defendant, for the purpose of foreclosing a mortgage lien upon certain lands described in the petition.
The only controversy in the case was between plaintiffs and defendant Durrell over the foreclosure of the mortgage. Durrell filed several pleas, none of which are necessary to mention except one in the nature…
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