Claes & Lehnbeuter v. Dallas Homestead & Loan Ass'n

COLLARD, Judge,

Section A.—On the 18th day of October, 1886, Frank Martin and his wife Catharine made a written contract with the Dallas Loan and Homestead Association, by which the association was to build for them a dwelling house on lots 6 and 7 in block B of a certain addition to the city of Dallas, and by which Martin and wife gave to the association a mechanic’s lien on the building and the lots. The contract is in the peculiar and complicated form adopted by such associations; Martin first executed to the association his bond acknowledging his indebtedness to the same in the sum of…