H. M. Cohen Lumber & Building Co. v. Panos

WALKER, Chief Justice.

Appellant, H. M. Cohen Lumber & Building Company, with Maryland Casualty Company as its surety, on the consideration of $20,000 built for appellee, Steve Panos, in the city of Houston a brick veneer eight apartment building. The cost of the building, evidenced by promissory notes, was secured by a mechanics’ and material-men’s lien on the building. Appellant assigned to H. Charney one of the notes in the amount of $2,000 and to N. G. Dobbins a second note in the amount of $15,000. This suit was by appellee against appellant and its surety for damages in failing to erect…