Tackaberry v. City National Bank
Texas Supreme Court
Writ of Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Second District, in a case from District Cpurt of Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. R. E. Beck-ham. This suit was brought on the 2d day of October, 1888, by Mrs. M. A. Tackaberry, against the City National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, in trespass to try title for two lots and business house thereon, in the city of Fort Worth.
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Writ of Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Second District, in a case from District Cpurt of Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. R. E. Beck-ham. This suit was brought on the 2d day of October, 1888, by Mrs. M. A. Tackaberry, against the City National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, in trespass to try title for two lots and business house thereon, in the city of Fort Worth. On the 16th day of March, 1888, plaintiff in error made a general assignment of her property, under the statute of Texas, for the benefit of her creditors, appointing George Mulkey assignee. At the time of the execution of said…
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
Plaintiff in error made a general assignment as an insolvent debtor, for the benefit of all her creditors, in accordance with the statute regulating that subject, and defendant in error claims the lots in controversy through purchase from the assignee.
She was the head of a family prior to and at the time the assignment was made, and had been for sometime engaged in a mercantile and manufacturing business, conducted on the lots in controversy, which were protected from forced sale by reason of the purpose for which they were used.
She also owned a house, in which, with…
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