C. M. Hapgood Shoe Co. v. First National Bank

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

The appellants, as creditors of one B. D. King, obtained judgments against him, and recorded abstracts thereof so as to make them liens on his real estate situated in Houston County, not exempt from execution. King, joined by his wife, had previously given a deed of trust to secure notes in favor of J. B. Smith upon certain lots in the town of Crockett upon which he erected a three-story building, afterwards used as a hotel, and a one-story building adjoining the same, which he rented out as a store. King and his wife claimed that the entire property was their…