Daniel v. Holtclaw

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

Appellee, Holtclaw, lived in Lincoln County and had a debt against White Daniel, who lived in Bell County. He sent the claim to a practicing attorney in Bell County with general authority to take all needed steps to collect it. The attorney sued in the Magistrate’s Court, and re-, covered judgment, and, after a return of “no property found,” took a transcript to the circuit court and levied an execution on two lots in Pineville, Nos. 1 and 2, in block 7. In due course, the sheriff sold the lots at public sale. The proof shows these lots were worth…