Commercial Credit Corp. v. Smith

Commercial Credit Corporation,. the petitioner here, sued George W. Smith, the respondent, and another in a county court of Dallas County for $582.94, besides interest and attorneys’ fees, the balance due on a promissory note executed by Smith and acquired by the petitioner and for foreclosure of a chattel mortgage lien on an automobile which the petitioner alleged was valued at less than $500.00v Service of citation was by publication. The trial court entered judgment June 24, 1943, establishing the debt and foreclosing the lien1 but.the decree also ordered that “no personal judgment of any…