56 Tex. 215 | Tex. | 1882
There are three assignments of error in this case, -but they present only one question for our determination. Plaintiff in error contends that as his vendors, Hendrix and wife, were in possession of
But the case before us does not fall within this rule. Plaintiff in error did not have the legal title. Neither he nor his vendors had anything more than an equity. They had notice by the recitals of the deed under which they claimed that the purchase money had not been paid.
• This case resembles very much the case of Ufford v. Wells, 52 Tex., 612. But the two cases are not exactly alike in every particular. In Ufford v. Wells the suit for foreclosure was brought by the vendor and the land was bought by him at the sale. In his deed to the vendee he had reserved a lien to secure the payment of the purchase money. But before he brought his foreclosure suit his vendee had sold the land and the purchaser had put his deed upon record. In an action of trespass to try title by the heirs of Wells against a subsequent purchaser of the land, it was held that the defendant could not protect himself upon the ground that the purchaser from the original vendee had not been made a party to the foreclosure suit. In the case before us, the suit to foreclose was not brought by the vendor, nor. was the land bought by him at the sale made under the decree. The foreclosure suits were brought by assignees of the purchase money notes, and at the sale the land was bought by a stranger, viz., C. L. Watson, the landlord of defendant
Affirmed.