Hill v. Engel

ALEXANDER, Justice.

In 1929, Chas. Engel and wife executed and delivered to J. S. Pool Lumber Company a mechanic’s lien contract on their homestead to secure the payment of a promissory note in the sum of $1,221.65 alleged to have been given for material with which to erect' a house on said homestead. On January 1, 1931, said indebtedness was renewed by the execution of a new note by Engel and wife to J. S. Pool Lumber Company and secured by a deed of trust on the same property. Before maturity said note and lien were assigned to J. R. Hill. Hill brought this suit against Engel and wife to…