Blackwell v. Guaranty State Bank of Keller

Appellee instituted this suit in the county court of Tarrant county against appellant to recover judgment- on three several promissory notes aggregating $500, and also sought to foreclose a chattel mortgage on certain personal property. In none of ap-pellee’s pleadings was the value of the mortgaged property specifically alleged. However, the pleading contained a copy of the mortgage, which it sought to foreclose, and which described the property, giving its value as follows:

“20 acres of cotton on H. M. Ash farm, Í922 crop, 1 gray' mare, 9 years old, her increase, 14% hands high, 1 mule colt,…