Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit March 3, 1908, No. 2,586 (Byrne v. Jones)

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

On June 2, 1892, Erastus. Jones of Worcester county, Mass., made a contract with E- A. Byrne, of Texarkana in the state of Arkansas, concerning a tract of about 2,600 acres of land situated in the states of Arkansas and Texas, to the effect that Byrne, who was an attorney at law, and who' held defective titles to the land upon which Jones had vendors’ liens for $6,117.