Johnson v. Whitaker

HALL, Chief Justice.

On June 18, 1932, Whitaker filed suit in the county court against J. E. Chrisman to recover upon a promissory note and to foreclose a chattel mortgage lien upon certain personal property described therein and sued out a writ of sequestration. Neither the petition nor the affidavit for sequestration states the value of each item of the mortgaged property separately, but they state that the property mortgaged is of the probable value of $400. On June 21st thereafter plaintiffs in error L. D. Johnson, H. B. Lane, and W. B. Hurd, as sureties, executed with J. E. Chrisman a…