D. Sullivan & Co. v. Texas Briquette & Coal Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. In a receivership over the Texas Briquette and Coal Company, D. Sullivan & Co., and others, holders of bonds secured by mortgage, prosecuted writ of error from a judgment of the District Court giving preference to the liens of the Watt 'Mining Car Wheel Company and others, interveners asserting materialmen’s liens.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. In a receivership over the Texas Briquette and Coal Company, D. Sullivan & Co., and others, holders of bonds secured by mortgage, prosecuted writ of error from a judgment of the District Court giving preference to the liens of the Watt 'Mining Car Wheel Company and others, interveners asserting materialmen’s liens. The judgment being affirmed, they then obtained writ of error from the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWH, Associate Justice.
M. Halff & Brother filed suit in the District Court of the Forty-fifth Judicial District in Bexar County against the Texas Briquette and Coal Company, a private corporation, alleging that it was indebted to the plaintiff, that the corporation was insolvent, and praying for the appointment of a receiver, which prayer was granted and the receiver appointed. This writ of error involves no issue between the original parties to this suit nor between either of the parties and the interveners who are hereinafter named. The following brief history and statement of the facts…
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