Spence v. Brown
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Third District, in an appeal from Tom Green County. Chief Justice Fisher being disqualified, Hon. L. J. Storey was appointed special judge in this case, and he delivered the opinion in the Court of Civil Appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
Both parties claiming from a common source, it was held by the Court of Civil Appeals that defendants in error were entitled to judgment if the judgment through which plaintiff in error claims was not so recorded as to give lien upon the land.
The sole ground on which it was held that the abstract of that judgment was not properly recorded was that the certificate authenticating it was not recorded with the abstract. ¡
The law provides, that “ It shall be the duty of each clerk of a court, when the person in whose favor the judgment was rendered, his agent, attorney, or…
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