King v. Young Men's Ass'n

BEADLEY, Circuit Justice.

This bill is filed to redeem certain lands in Harris county, Texas, which were proposed as a site for a projected city, to be called New Houston. The case stated by the bill is substantially this: That on the 18th of April, 1SGG, John T. Brady purchased the lands in question for the sum of $29,602.30, payable, half in cash, and half in promissory notes, secured by a lien in the nature of a mortgage reserved to the vendors in the deed. That on the 27th of December, 186G, Brady conveyed the land to William P. Hamblin, as trustee for Isaac T. Tinsley and his associates…