Busby v. Jones

MURRAY, Justice.

Appellee, Grace E. Jones, a feme sole, instituted this suit in the district court of Nueces county for the Twenty-Eighth judicial district of Texas, against Nowlin Collier and wife, Dollie Collier, and J. J. Busby, seeking to recover upon an alleged vendor’s lien note in the sum of $1,630.45, signed by Nowlin Collier and Dollie Collier. She also sought to foreclose an alleged vendor’s lien against 280 acres of land situated in Nueces county; the legal title to the land being in J. J. Busby at the time the suit was filed.

The trial was to a jury, but at the close of the'…