Graves v. Hallmark

PITTS, Chief Justice.

Appellee, Sam Hallmark, sued appellants, R. E. Graves and wife Helen A. Graves, for a debt alleged to be evidenced in part by a note and all of it secured by a mechanic’s and materialman’s lien. ' The suit arose out of a contract between the parties in which appellee agreed to furnish all labor and the material and construct improvements as a homestead for appellants on a tract of land owned by appellants and situated in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas. Before the construction began appellants executed a mechanic’s lien note of date July 15, 1948, for $11,000 payable1 in…