Scott v. Childers

TEMPLETOH, Associate Justice.

The appellee, W. H. Childers, was engaged in the dairy -business at Hillsboro. The dairy property consisted of about twenty acres of land and thirty cows with their calves. Childers had bought this property from G. H. Vaughan, and had given his notes, aggregating about $5000, for part of the purchase money. The notes were secured by a lien on the property. Vaughan owed W. S. Heard a note for $1044, and E. M. Cox and another were sureties on said note. The Childers notes were put up with Heard as collateral to further secure the note for $1044. Vaughan also owed a…