Dukes v. Migura

OPINION

BENAVIDES, Justice.

This is a suit for recovery of a debt and for foreclosure of a lien on real property securing that debt. The trial court granted a summary judgment in appellee’s favor for $25,000.00, plus attorney’s fees and interest, and foreclosed a prior lien to satisfy the debt. Appellant asserts that the trial court erred in enforcing the lien because it was based on a void judgment.

The lien and debt sued upon arose from a prior suit between appellee and the representative of her alleged common law husband’s estate. Appellant was not named as a party in that earlier suit, which…