Legal Opinion
United States v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 22, 1941No. 44PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Byrnes
W. L. Nix was a manufacturer and distributor of motor fuel, doing business in Texas under the name of Texas Refinery. On November 20, 1933, M. R. Ingraham, who held a demand note secured by a chattel mortgage on certain tanks belonging to Nix, brought an action in the District Court of Gregg County, Texas. He alleged that demand had been made on the note, that it had not been paid, that Nix owned no property in Texas other than that of Texas Refinery, that the value of the mortgaged tanks was insufficient to discharge the note, that the tanks were not used “for a separate purpose” but in the…
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