Patterson v. Rogers
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. Everett Lewis. Suit by B. R. Rogers against W. M. Rust and E. H. Patterson as indorsers, and Ed. Duggan as maker, on a promissory note for $1,800 in coin, dated the 7th day of May, 1875, and due January 1, 1877, secured by vendor’s lien upon land described in petition, praying for judgment against all and a foreclosure of said lien. Plaintiff in error accepted service, and defendants Rust and Duggan filed answers.
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Error from Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. Everett Lewis. Suit by B. R. Rogers against W. M. Rust and E. H. Patterson as indorsers, and Ed. Duggan as maker, on a promissory note for $1,800 in coin, dated the 7th day of May, 1875, and due January 1, 1877, secured by vendor’s lien upon land described in petition, praying for judgment against all and a foreclosure of said lien. Plaintiff in error accepted service, and defendants Rust and Duggan filed answers. W. A. Marlow intervened, setting up that Patterson was indebted to him in the sum of $2,210.50, due by notes, and to secure the…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
The writ of error in this case was sued out by Mrs. E. H. Patterson only, seeking to revise the action of the court in rendering a judgment against her in favor of B. R. Rogers, and also another judgment against her in favor of an intervener, Marlow.
In the brief filed by her counsel but two questions are presented.
First. It is insisted that the answer to the plea of intervention filed in her name, signed “J. R. Jefferson, Jr., agent,” was without authority, because “he,” Jefferson, “was not a lawyer, nor did he have a power of attorney to act for her.” As the decree…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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