Cockrell v. Craugh

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by H. V. (Bee) Cockrell, Jr., against J. M. Craugh, an individual, and J. M. Craugh and Company, a Texas corporation, jointly and severally, on a note dated April 11, 1952 in the amount of $23,000 with the typewritten signature of J. M. Craugh and Company on the note, and the written signature of J. M. Craugh on the note, and was also brought by the plaintiff against the said defendants jointly and severally for an amount of $14,500 cash money loaned by the plaintiff to the defendants. J. Gilmer Blackburn, Trustee, intervened,1 claiming to own the…