Thompson v. Griffin
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cherokee. Tried below before the Hon. James I. Perkins. Suit by F. E. Griffin against the appellants upon a promissory note signed by F. E. Thompson, purporting to be given to John R. Bugg for a second payment due upon a tract of land sold to the maker of the note by Willis Bugg.
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Appeal from Cherokee. Tried below before the Hon. James I. Perkins. Suit by F. E. Griffin against the appellants upon a promissory note signed by F. E. Thompson, purporting to be given to John R. Bugg for a second payment due upon a tract of land sold to the maker of the note by Willis Bugg. The petition charges that John R. and Willis Bugg sold four hundred and thirty-five and six-tenths acres of land to James P. & F. E. Thompson, and made conveyance to the former of two hundred and eighty-five and six-tenths acres, and to the latter; of one hundred and fifty acres. It was alleged that this…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
It is assigned as error that the court erred in overruling the defendant’s plea in abatement. The suit was brought to subject to a vendor’s lien a tract of land in which it was alleged both parties had an interest. In such a suit both the defendants were, of course, necessary parties, in order to bind their interests in the land by the judgment. But it is unimportant whether there was a misjoinder of causes of action or of parties in view of the final disposition made of the *142case below. The plaintiff did not recover against any one upon ihe note except the defendant who…
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