Rogers v. Green
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. John G. Scott. The opinion states the facts on which the rulings are predicated. In the court below, verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiffs, Green and his vendee pendente lite, A. T. Wilson.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
On the twenty-fourth day of November, 1857, Ira N. Green and wife sold to Thomas H. Rogers a tract of land situated in Kaufman county, in which was contained 1237acres. The consideration fertile sale of the land was $1845. Green and wife executed to Rogers a bond for title, in which instrument is acknowledged the receipt of $1045, upon the sale and delivery to Green and wife by Rogers, of a negro girl-named Niece, whose price was fixed at that sum.
The title bond further recites that Rogers- executed- and delivered to Green and wife his promissory note-for eight hundred dollars, bearing ten…
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