Bicocchi v. Casey-Swasey Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Tarrant County. L. Bicocchi sued the Casey-Swasey Company and the Texas Furniture Company to remove clouds from his title to certain real property. On trial before the court plaintiff was denied a recovery and the liens claimed by defendants against the property were held valid. Plaintiff appealed, and on affirmance of the judgment obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
In this case the Court of Civil Appeals adopted the findings of fact filed by the judge of the trial court, from which we make the following condensed statement of the case:
In October, 1889, L. Bicocchi bought the lot in controversy from R. E. Maddox for the sum of $1150; one half was paid in cash at the time by Bicocchi, and for the other half of the purchase money D. Mazza gave his note, which note was afterwards paid by pflaintiff in error. The deed to the lot was made by Maddox to D. Mazza up)on the agreement and understanding between Bicocchi and Mazza, that the…
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