Fievel v. Zuber

Gaines, Associate Justice.

On the fifteenth day of June, 1874, Eliza H. Wakeman sold the north half of the northeast quarter of lot forty-three in the city of Galveston to one Lawson for three thousand dollars. The sum of one thousand dollars was paid at the time of the transaction and two notes were given for the balance, each for one thousand dollars, _and bearing ten per cent interest, payable respectively at one and two years after date. The notes were secured by a deed in trust upon the lot conveyed, executed to one R. A. Brown, as trustee, at the time of the sale, and authorized him, in…