Spurlock v. Sullivan
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. J. W. Oliver. The opinion of the court gives a lucid statement of the material facts of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
In 1868, this suit was instituted in the District Court by H. H. Sullivan, against Bethel Spurlock, upon a certain promissory note for eleven hundred and fifty dollars, dated in 1866, and to foreclose a mortgage given upon a tract of land, to secure the payment of the note. The appellants intervened, and claimed an equitable interest in the mortgaged land, and in their petition' of intervention they alleged that the land was purchased by Bethel Spurlock, for the common benefit of the intervenors and said Bethel and Drury Spurlock, and that though he took the deed for the land in his own name,…
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