Scott v. Slaughter

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the appellant in the District Court of the Forty-fourth Judicial District of Texas to recover of appellee amounts aggregating $20,000, with interest thereon paid to appellee by the appellant on September 25, 1900, for the transfer to appellant by the appellee of the unexpired term of a leasehold estate for ten years from March 1, 1900, of a certain 92,040 acres of public school land in Gaines and Andrews counties in the State of Texas and to cancel a certain promissory note given by appellant to appellee on January 1, 1901, and due…