Shonaker v. Citizens' Loan & Investment Co.

Appellee sued appellants, Edwin W. Shonaker and his wife, Mrs. Iphi Shonaker, for the balance due on a $2,600 note, payable in monthly installments of $30, and bearing 8 per cent, interest, computed monthly, and to foreclose a mechanic’s lien upon a house and lot in Austin given to secure the payment of the note, and on a trial recovered judgment for $298.05, as balance due on interest and principal, and $29.80 as attorney’s fees, aggregating $327.85, against Edwin W. Shonaker, with decree of foreclosure of the mechanic’s lien against both of the appellants.

The first and principal attack made…