Shipp v. Anderson

On May 27, 1907, H. B. Rumsey sold and conveyed a lot of land to appellant, D. A. Shipp, for a cash payment of $70 and Shipp’s 21 notes in equal amounts, aggregating $122, one note falling due each month thereafter, and reserving the vendor’s lien in the notes and deed as security. Thereafter, on March 8, 1911, after the maturity of all the notes, Rumsey brought suit thereon and to foreclose the vendor’s lien. Service of citation was had on Shipp in time to require him to answer at the April term, 1911, of the district court, which convened on the first Monday in April, and which could and…