Pitcock v. Johns

HUGHES, Justice.

Appellee, Hammond B. Johns, sued Byron Haynes for debt and Haynes and appellant Louis Pitcock for foreclosure of a lien allegedly created under Arts. 5473-5479, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, against an oil and gas lease insofar as it covered a described 6.198 acres of land in Caldwell County and three oil wells located thereon.

A nonjury trial resulted in judgment for appellee establishing his debt against Haynes in the sum of $2,944.41, for $500 attorneys’ fees, interest, costs of suit and foreclosing his lien on the property above mentioned as against both Haynes and…