Williams v. Mutual Motor Co.

•FUNDERBURK, Justice.

Suit by Mutual Motor Company, a corporation, against C. W. Williams was filed in justice’s court on March 16, 1931, to recover upon a promissory note for the principal sum of $160, and to foreclose a chattel mortgage lien qn a motorcycle. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appealed to the county court. In the county court defendant, on November 12, 1932, filed a plea to abate the suit “because,” to quote from the plea, “the Mutual Motor Company was formerly a corporation, and has forfeited its right to do business in the State of Texas, on account of failure to pay…