Clint v. Houston Ice Brewing Company

This application for writ of error is refused because it does not appear from the facts stated that the Ice & Gin Company of Harlingen was a public corporation;' therefore it was not permissible for the court to postpone the prior lien of the Houston lee & Brewing Company to the expenses and costs of the receivership sued out in this case. We have thought it prudent to make this statement lest our refusal of the writ of error might be understood to overrule Ellis v. Water Co., 86 Tex. 109, 23 S. W. 858, in which this court held that the prior mortgage or lien could be postponed in favor of…