Fowler v. Bell
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals, Third District, in an appeal from Wichita County. The suit was brought by Mary E. Bell and her husband to recover on a note and to foreclose a mortgage on personal property in Wichita County, Texas, executed by the McLeod Artesian Well Co. and against Kent, who had bought the property at an attachment sale, and by amendment against Fowler, who had bought it of Kent and converted it.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals, Third District, in an appeal from Wichita County. The suit was brought by Mary E. Bell and her husband to recover on a note and to foreclose a mortgage on personal property in Wichita County, Texas, executed by the McLeod Artesian Well Co. and against Kent, who had bought the property at an attachment sale, and by amendment against Fowler, who had bought it of Kent and converted it. Plaintiff had judgment for the amount of the note with foreclosure of the mortgage, and judgment for the value of the property converted against Fowler, who appealed, and on the…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The Court of Civil Appeals made the following statement of the case and conclusions of fact:
“On the 1st day of March, 1892, the McLeod Artesian Well Company, a private corporation created by the laws of Iowa, and domiciled there, executed to Máry E. Bell its note for $1000, for money loaned it by her, payable one year after date thereof. On the 3d day of June, 1893, the McLeod Artesian Well Co. executed to Mary E. Bell a chattel mortgage dated June 3, 1893, conveying to her certain property situated in Wichita Falls, Texas, belonging to said company, for the purpose…
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