Galbraith v. Townsend

KEY, Associate Justice.

The appellants, who were bankers, doing business in Lampasas, Texas, brought this suit December 11, 1888, in the District Court of Lampasas County, against John Hanen and appellees, on a note for $1025, executed by them to appellants on March 25, 1888, payable ninety days after date. At the trial appellants dismissed as to defendant Hanen.

At the time of the execution of the note sued on appellants held the personal notes of John Hanen, one for $400 and the other for $718.17, and attached to each of the notes was a mortgage on sheep and the wool thereon to secure the…