Dubois v. Walters

Appellee instituted this suit against appellant, seeking to recovfer $817.57 and to foreclose a mortgage Hen on a Star automobile. The petition did not state the value of the automobile. At the time appel-lee filed his petition he filed an affidavit for a writ of sequestration,- in which he alleged the value of the automobile to be $900, and alleged that he had a valid mortgage lien thereon and prayed for the issuance of a writ of sequestration. The cause was tried to the court, and resulted in a judgment being rendered for appellee for the amount of his debt, together with a foreclosure of…