Britt v. Burghart

TARLTOH,

Chiee Justice.—On July 25, 1887, M. Burghart loaned to M. H. Sevier $2000, for which the latter executed his two promissory notes, each for the sum of $1000, maturing respectively in one and two years, with 10 per cent interest from date and an attorney’s fee clause' of 10 per cent. As a purported security for this indebtedness, Sevier executed a transfer reciting that the notes represented the purchase money and constituted a vendor’s lien upon a certain brick storehouse and lot situated in the town of Vernon, Texas.

Sevier was the head of a family, and as the maturity of the first…