Bateman Bros. v. Pool

HENRY, Associate Justice.

— This suit was brought by appellants against J. O. Pool, R. G. Chenoweth and his wife Lizzie Chenoweth, who before her marriage was named Lizzie Pool, and E. G. Bivens, to foreclose a mortgage upon an improved lot in the town of Yocona, alleged to have been made to appellants to secure a debt held by them against one H. J. Pool.

The cause was tried by the court without a jury, and a final judgment was rendered for the defendants.

The mortgage was executed, while she was a feme sole, by Lizzie Pool alone. It was first signed for her by her agent J. O. Pool thus, “Lizzie…