Texas Supreme Court, 1881

Peel v. Gary

Peel v. Gary
Texas Supreme Court · Decided January 21, 1881 · Bonner
54 Tex. 253; 1881 Tex. LEXIS 13

Peel v. Gary

Opinion of the Court

Bonner, Associate Justice.

In this case theappeU.ee, James M. Gary, sued appellant, John R. Peel, upon a promissory note for $181.69, with prayer for personal judgment and enforcement of vendor’s lien.

The note recites that it was given for the one undivided half of the north half of a third of a league of land patented to Denwood James.

Judgment was rendered for plaintiff, principal and in*254terest, and enforcing the vendor’s lien on the whole one-third of a league, from which this appeal is taken.

In rendering judgment enforcing the vendor’s hen upon the whole one-third of a league, there was error for which it must be reversed.

A jury was waived, and as the note upon its face shows for what interest in the land it was given, the judgment will be reformed in this court) so as to enforce the vendor’s hen only upon the undivided one-half interest in the north half of the third of a league of land patented to Denwood James as described in the petition; appellee to pay the costs in and about this appeal expended, and it is accordingly so ordered.

Reversed and reformed.

[Opinion delivered January 21, 1881.]

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