Fitch v. Lomax

Homer D. Fitch, plaintiff in error, in the year 1921, purchased a large amount of real estate in the vicinity of the city of Brownsville from the New York & Brownsville Improvement Company, Limited, the consideration being paid partly in cash and partly by the execution of vendor’s lien notes. The deed conveying this property to Fitch provided that the vendor, upon certain payments being made, would release any portion of the property resold by Fitch. After selling a substantial portion of the property, Bitch was unable to meet payments on the purchase money of said property due his vendor,…