Grimes v. Hobson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from De Witt. Tried below before the Hon. D. D. Claiborne.. S. F. Grimes brought suit, August 21,1871, against hi. Hobson, in the District Court of De Witt county. The petition set out that, October 5, 1855, in the District Court of Jackson county, a judgment was obtained for §1,132.49, by Joseph IT.
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Appeal from De Witt. Tried below before the Hon. D. D. Claiborne.. S. F. Grimes brought suit, August 21,1871, against hi. Hobson, in the District Court of De Witt county. The petition set out that, October 5, 1855, in the District Court of Jackson county, a judgment was obtained for §1,132.49, by Joseph IT. Raymond, against William G. Hill, Benjamin F. Hill, and D. M. Stapp; that under said judgment, an alias execution was issued, October 4, 1858, to the sheriff of DeWitt county, which execution came to the hands of the sheriff of De Witt county, October 12,1858, and was, on the same-day,…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
It was expressly decided by this court at its late session, at Austin, in the case of Grace v. Wade and Mains, that an unrecorded deed was void, by reason of om registration acts against a creditor who had acquired a specific lien or interest in the land in controversy, by the levy of an execution under a judgment in a different *419county from that in which the land was situated, although the creditor had not caused a copy of the judgment to be .recorded in said county; and that the creditor, or any one else who might purchase the land under the execution, would get…
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