Hemming v. Zimmerschitte
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Colorado. This suit was brought by tlie plaintiff in error against tlie, defendant in error “to enforce tlie specific, performance of a title bond for two hundred and lifty acres of laud.”
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Error from Colorado. This suit was brought by tlie plaintiff in error against tlie, defendant in error “to enforce tlie specific, performance of a title bond for two hundred and lifty acres of laud.” The date of (he bond was tlie 28th of August, 1889. The petition was filed on the Kith of September, 184G. By the bond the defendant acknowledged himself to be hold and firmly bound unto the plaintiff in tlie sum of 81,000. with a condition in tlie following- words: “How tlie condition of the foregoing- obligation is such that if I, the said Zimmerschitte, my heirs or assigns, for and in…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
This case was brought by the appellant (who wa= plaintiff in the court below) for specific performance! of a bond conditioned to be void on conveyance of title to lands therein described. The petition was filed in September, 1846, and the answer, or paper purporting to be an answer, in April, 1847. At tlie next, term a general demurrer or exception was tiled, and at a subsequent term tlie petition was amended and a second general demurrer was pleaded. On argument tlie demurrer was sustained and the petition dismissed. A motion to set aside (his judgment was overruled, and (lie…
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