Burleson v. Graves

Statement.

BAUGH, J.

Plaintiff sued defendants on four notes for $100 each, and for foreclosure of a mortgage on an automobile given to secure same, and sequestrated the car. Defendants answered separately, the wife setting up her coverture, alleging that she signed her name and that of her husband without his consent or authority to the notes and mortgage in question, as part payment for a combined grocery store and rooming house in Mexia. She also, in her answer, denied his ratification' of her acts, and alleged fraud in the procurement of the notes and mortgage, and failure of consideration.…