Steward v. Coleman County
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Coleman County. Coleman County sued Steward and Hubert, with others, and appealed from a judgment in Steward’s favor. The judgment being reversed and rendered for appellant, Steward obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
This action was begun by the county against W. H. Hubert, J. X. Steward and others to recover against Hubert upon a note given to the county by him for a parcel of land claimed to be a part of one of its leagues of school land; and against all of the defendants for a foreclosure of its vendor’s lien upon ■such land. The defendants named are the only ones who made defenses.
The defense upon which the case was decided in the District Court .and Court of Civil Appeals and depends here was that of failure of ■consideration, based upon the allegation that the land for…
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