Quillin v. State Trust Co.

The State Trust Company, a corporation, sued M. A. Quillin and his wife, Alta C. Quil-lin, on a note secured by a mechanic’s lien, dated April 1Ó, 1923, payable in three annual payments, of $833.33 each, due one, two, and three years after date. The note and mechanic’s lien was in favor of the Oil Center Lumber Company, of Wichita Falls, and was for lumber and building material furnished by said lumber company to the Quillins.

The defendants pleaded a general demurrer, and the defendant Alta C. Quillin further pleaded that the indebtedness recited in said notes was not for improvements to her…