Strickland v. Dobbs
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Harrison County Court; J. H. Strength, Judge. Action by Phillip Strickland against N. J. Dobbs. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Appellee, a dealer in household furniture, sold appellant, a married man, certain furniture for $16, to be paid in semimonthly installments of $2 each.
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Appeal from Harrison County Court; J. H. Strength, Judge. Action by Phillip Strickland against N. J. Dobbs. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Appellee, a dealer in household furniture, sold appellant, a married man, certain furniture for $16, to be paid in semimonthly installments of $2 each. To secure the payment of the $16 appellant executed a mortgage on the furniture, in which he agreed that, if he defaulted in his undertaking, ap-pellee might, without legal process of any kind authorizing it, enter upon his premises and take and carry the furniture away. Aft-erwiards…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, O. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The contention that the mortgage to secure the payment of the purchase price of the furniture was void because it was not signed and acknowledged by appellant’s wife is predicated upon section 11 of Act March 1, 1915 (General Laws, p. 48 [Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1918, art. 6171 j]), known as the “Loan Brokers’ Law.” If that act applies to mortgages to persons not engaged, and appellee was not, in the business of lending money on interest, it nevertheless did not apply to the mortgage in question. The statute was intended to apply only to…
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