Brown v. Hudson

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

In heir joint and several promissory note to W. T. Carpenter in the sum of $24,000, and to better secure its payment W. T. Hudson, who resided in Bosque County, Texas, executed a chattel mortgage upon his cattle then ranging in Throckmorton Oounty, branded IX and some XI, of the estimated number of 1300. This mortgage was promptly registered in the latter county, but not in that of the mortgagor’s residence.

Soon thereafter Carpenter pledged both, the note and mortgage to a bank in Fort Worth as security for a loan to him of $2500. On December 1, 1885, E. Y. Brown,…