Stephens v. Summerfield

FINLEY, Chief Justice.

—On the 12th day of February, 1893, .appellees brought this suit to recover the amount due upon a promissory note executed by J. C. Criswell and payable to Zilphia Stephens for $500, with 10 per cent per annum interest, and for 10 per cent attorney’s fees, and to foreclose a vendor’s lien on three-fourths of an acre of land situated in the town of Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, said note being dated May.22, 1889, due and payable to the order of Zilphia Stephens, on May 22, 1894; claiming that said note had been indorsed, negotiated, and sold by Zilphia Stephens to the…