Rayner Cattle Co. v. Bedford
Texas Supreme Court
Application for writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from. Knox County. The case upon a former appeal is reported in 13 Texas Civ. App., 618 (35 S. W. Rep., 933), where a recovery by plaintiff was reversed. On a second trial plaintiff appealed from a judgment for defendant, which was affirmed in an opinion as follows:
1Opinion of the Court
This suit was filed by appellant against appellee on October 16, 1893, to recover on three certain promissory notes executed by appellee to it on July 24, 1890, for section No. 90, block 45, H. T. C. R. R. Co., containing 640 acres, and to foreclose the vendor's lien on said land. The defense was failure of consideration, in that the title was not in appellant at the date of the sale, and that it had no valid claim thereto, but was in the State of Texas, it being public school lands of the State; and also a plea in reconvention, praying judgment for $138.20, paid to appellant on said land…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Richardson v. LeviTexas Supreme Court · 1887
- Threadgill v. BickerstaffTexas Supreme Court · 1895
- Tram Lumber Co. v. HancockTexas Supreme Court · 1888
- Lamb v. JamesTexas Supreme Court · 1895
- Bedford v. Rayner Cattle Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1896
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- Williams v. FinleyTexas Supreme Court · 1906
- Causeway Investment Co. v. NassTexas Supreme Court · 1938
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