Cotton States Building Co. v. Jones
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Denton County. Jones and wife sued the building company and obtained judgment. Defendant appealed and on its affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought by defendants in error against plaintiff in error to cancel a certain contract of indebtedness and to recover back money alleged to have been paid by them in excess of the sum legally due.
The plaintiff in error is an incorporated building and loan association. By the original, contract in controversy, the plaintiff in error bound itself to cause a house to be built for defendants in error upon a certain lot in the city of Denton, upon terms and conditions not necessary to be' mentioned, for the sum of $1000. The transaction seems to have been a loan…
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