Health Betterment Foundation v. Thomas

Lee Seamster, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the appellants, from a decree of the Garland Chancery Court, whereby appellee, B. W. Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of A. W. Petersohn, deceased, recovered a judgment against appellants in the sum of $27,000. This judgment was declared a specific lien against the property of the Health Betterment Foundation, appellants herein, and based on a lis pendens filed by the appellee on March 31, 1953.

In early September of 1951, A. W. Petersohn and certain of the appellants became acquainted while attending a medical institute meeting in Michigan.…