Lone Star Gas Company v. Sheaner

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by Lone Star Gas Company as plaintiff against Jack Sheaner and James W. Tomlin as defendants to recover a money judgment against Sheaner for $252 unpaid balance of the purchase price of a water heater, and for foreclosure of a chattel mortgage lien against Sheaner and Tomlin, the latter being the person in whose possession the heater was situated. Judgment by default was taken against Sheaner, but a motion for summary judgment denying plaintiff’s right to foreclose its asserted lien on the water heater against defendant Tomlin was sustained by the…