Sawyer v. First National Bank of Hico
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hamilton County. Tried below before Hon. N. E. Lindsey. Associate Justice Eidson, having been of counsel, did not sit in the case, and, by reason of his disqualification, D. E. Simmons, Esq., was appointed and commissioned as associate justice herein.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMMOHS, Associate Justice.
This was a suit brought in the District Court of Hamilton County by the First National Bank of Hico, as a preferred creditor in a deed of trust, and as the owner of the claims of two other preferred creditors, against L. M. Sawyer, trustee, a resident of' Hamilton County, Texas, and M. A. Cooper & Company, a firm composed of M. A. Cooper, B. C. Barrett and C. B. Adams, residents of McLennan County, and H. K. Brewer, a resident of Erath County, alleging that the defendants had been guilty of fraud in depriving plaintiff of its pro rata part of a judgment which had…
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