Bank of Garvin v. Freeman
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District, in an appeal from Fannin County. The Bank of Garvin sued Freeman, Steger, and the Freeman-Steger Lumber Co. and had judgment against them. Steger had judgment on his cross-action over against his co-defendant Freeman.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District, in an appeal from Fannin County. The Bank of Garvin sued Freeman, Steger, and the Freeman-Steger Lumber Co. and had judgment against them. Steger had judgment on his cross-action over against his co-defendant Freeman. Freeman appealed, and the judgment was reversed and rendered in his favor as against the bank, but reversed and remanded, as between Freeman and Steger, with instructions to sustain Freeman’s plea to the venue and transfer to the county of his residence. The plaintiff bank and defendant Steger separately applied for and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Yahtis
The suit was by the Bank of Garvin against P. R. Fr.eeman, E. D. Steger, and the Freeman-Steger Lumber Company, to recover, a balance due on a $5,000 note which had been executed by the lumber company and endorsed by B. D. Steger, and which was payable to the Bank of Garvin. In its petition the bank alleged that though the note was-originally the obligation of the Freeman-Steger Lumber Company and E. D. Steger, the said P. R. Freeman, appellant below, became primarily liable to it for the payment thereof in that he voluntarily assumed its payment in a contract made between him and the…
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