Fitzgerald v. Compton

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee to recover the amount due upon a note for $500, executed by appellants, and to foreclose a vendor’s lien upon a tract of 113 7-10 acres of land conveyed by appellee to the appellant, Mrs. H. L. Fitzgerald, the note having been executed in part payment of the purchase money for said land. On June 4, 1901, the cause being regularly called for trial in the court below, the appellants though duly cited failed to appear and answer therein, and judgment by default was accordingly rendered against them for the amount found due upon…