Holt v. Gordon

The certificate of the honorable Court of Civil Appeals, which contains the question propounded for determination, is as follows:

“In the above entitled cause plaintiff, B. T. Holt, sued to recover judgment against defendant, F. J. Gordon, on three promissory notes executed hy defendant in plaintiff's favor. According to allegations in plaintiff's petition two of the notes were for the principal sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars each, dated September 28, 1906, and executed contemporaneously with a deed from plaintiff to defendant to sixty acres of land upon which a vendor’s lien was…