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54 Tex. 253

Peel v. Gary

Texas Supreme Court

Decided January 21, 1881

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1881-01-21

<p>Appeal from Montgomery. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson.</p>

Decided 1881-01-21

Bonner, Associate Justice.

¶1In 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.

¶2The 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.

¶3Judgment 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.

¶4In rendering judgment enforcing the vendor’s hen upon the whole one-third of a league, there was error for which it must be reversed.

¶5A 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.

¶6Reversed and reformed.

¶7[Opinion delivered January 21, 1881.]

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