Southern Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Thomson
Decision Date | 16 June 1900 |
Parties | SOUTHERN HOME BUILDING & LOAN ASS'N v. THOMSON. |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from district court, Parker county; J. W. Patterson, Judge.
Action by J. R. Thomson against the Southern Home Building & Loan Association to remove a cloud from plaintiff's title to certain property, for cancellation of a debt claimed by defendant against him, and for the application of payments already made to the discharge of that debt. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
Bidwell & Stennis and Pruit & Smith, for appellant. Alexander & Fain, for appellee.
The nature of this suit is well stated in appellee's brief, and is as follows: The case was tried by a jury, and judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, and the defendant company has appealed.
There was competent evidence tending to establish all the material allegations in plaintiff's petition, and that the $84.08 taxes paid by the defendant company was paid after the debt, if the contract was usurious, had been extinguished, and, of course, the lien discharged; thereby rendering the payment...
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