Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. Taylor
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Tarrant County. This litigation involved the rights of various creditors in the property known as “Holmes’ Castle,” in Fort Worth, and is connected with the sensational career of one Herman W. Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, who was executed in Philadelphia, in 1896, for the murder of B. F. Pitzel. His case is reported as Commonwealth v. Mudgett, 174 Pa. St., 211; s. c., 34 Atl.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Tarrant County. This litigation involved the rights of various creditors in the property known as “Holmes’ Castle,” in Fort Worth, and is connected with the sensational career of one Herman W. Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, who was executed in Philadelphia, in 1896, for the murder of B. F. Pitzel. His case is reported as Commonwealth v. Mudgett, 174 Pa. St., 211; s. c., 34 Atl. Rep., 588. The same parties figure in the present transaction under assumed names—Holmes, or Mudgett, as “H. M. Pratt,” and Pitzel as “Benton…
1Opinion of the Court
The bank appeals from the judgment of the court in decreeing that the $4530 of claims for material furnished under contracts made after the date of its mortgage should have priority of payment over its debt, and Taylor and Bennett prosecute writ of error from the judgment, because it decrees that the bank's claim, and those of other material men to the amount of $4530 shall have priority over their debt, which they claim should be classed with the other material men's liens and claims, and paid in the same order, and before the bank's claim. Some of the material men lienholders also resist…
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