Hunter v. Marlin Nat. Bank

Appellee sued appellant in the county court upon a promissory note for the sum of $122, with interest and attorney's fees, and to foreclose a chattel mortgage upon live stock, alleged to be of the total value of $250. Appellant filed a plea in abatement, alleging, among other things, that the live stock covered by said mortgage were all dead before and at the time of the filing of the suit, except one mare and one cow, aggregating in value a sum less than $200, and alleged that the alleged value of said mortgaged property of $250 was made by plaintiff in order to fraudulently confer…