Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-16

the STATE ar TFxAS
To the Sheriff or any Constable

To the Sheriff or any Constable OF
Cameron Connty-Greetlng.
You are hereby commanded 90 sum
mon r. +. Sykes by making publiea-
ton Of this Citation ones In each week
for four successive weeks previous 10
the return day hereof IN some news
paper published Ia your County,
to appear at the next regular term
Of the 1O3rd Judicial District Court
~ Texas. within and for Cameron
County, 70 be holden at the Court
House thereof, in Brownsville, on
the third Monday in December A. ID.
1927 the same being the 10th day Of
December A. ID. 1927, then and
there to answer a petition filed in
said Court on the eth day Of Septem-
Der A. ID. 1927 in q suit, numbered on
wherein The AL Parker Securities
company, a corporation, is Plaintiff,
and r.. r.. Sykes u Defendant, and
said petition alleging that by deed
recorded in Volume 126. or pages 1913,
CO seq. OF the Deed Records Of Cam
eron County, Texas, one A. F. Parker
conveyed TO defendant that certain
tract Of land in Cameron County,
Texas, being the north 10 acres Of
the northeast 20 acres Of Block Is
u Of what is know as the Cantu
Tract, located within the La FERN
Water Improvement District Cam
eron County Number Three, retain
ing in said deed to secure the unpaid
purchase price consideration for said
land d vendors and contract lien which
unpaid purchase price consideration
was. and Is, evidenced BY five certain
promissory vendors lien notes. num-
bered / TO 3. inclusive, each for the
principal sum Of $1T8.26, dated La
Feria, Texas, April ., 1924, due, re-
spectively. each, one 70 five
years after date, made by the de-
PENDANT, payable 20 plaintiff herein,
bearing interest from date until ma
turity at the rate Of s per Ger per
annum. interest payable semi-annual-
IL as II accrues. each note reciting
the same to be given In part payment
Of the purchase price consideration
for the above land, providing that all
past due prinipal and interest shall
bear interest at the rate Of 10 per
cent per annum, after the annual ma
ruritv thereof, each note reciting the
same 70 be one Of n series Of the
above five notes, providing that fail
ure 70 pay the particular note. or any
installmcnt OF interest thereon. when
due. shall, at the election Of the
holder OF all or said notes. or any
one Of them. mature all Of said notes,
and thoy shall at once become due
and payable, the maker specially
agreeing that II the particular note
is placed in the hands of an attorney
for collection to pay an additional
amount Of 10 per cent on the prin-
cipal and interest then due thereon
IS attorneys fees, each Of said notes
bearing the proper amount of docu-
mentary stamps duly cancelled, notes
numbers 3. 4 and 5 of said series now
containing endorsements showing in
terest paid to October ., 1925; that
notes numbers / and ? Of the series
or notes aforesaid have been fully
paid off and discharged: that note
number 3 OF said series is now long
past due and unpaid, and no pay
ment whatever has been made on the
interest accruing on said notes 3. 4
and s since October Q. 1926: that
said past due interest be paid. but
defendant has wholly failed and re-
fused TO make such payment and
does now fail and refuse to make
such payment; that because Of the
default OF said defendant in the pay
ment Of said note number 3 and Of
said interest plaintiff has elected 70
declare the entirety OF the indebted
ness evidenced by all Of said notes 3.
4 and 3 due and payable and has
placed same in the hands Of attor-
ncys for collection. thereby causing
the 10 per cent attorneys fees there
in provided for TO become matured,
due and payable.