Second Nat. Bank of Houston v. Settegast

On August 1st of 1930, W. H. H. Miller was conducting a book business — daily exposing his goods, wares, and merchandise for sale — at 416 Fannin street, city of Houston, in a building owned by the Settegast Realty Company, whom he then owed for past-due rent thereon at the rate of $250 per month, a total of $4,475, of which $1.500 had so accrued during the six months' period immediately preceding that date, the $2,975 balance having been due for a longer time; he also owed, among a number of other obligations to various creditors, Second National Bank of Houston an unsecured renewal note for…