Barton v. Wichita River Oil Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Wichita County ; J. W. Akin, Judge. Suit by S. I. Barton against the Wichita River Oil Company and Claude Minor. Judgment for plaintiff, .making the lien of his chattel mortgage inferior to the laborers’ liens foreclosed by defendant Minor, and discharging defendant Minor, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtConner, C. J.
This suit was instituted by S. I. Barton against the Wichita River Oil Company upon promissory notes aggregating some $2,048.84, which had been given by the oil company to the Keystone Driller Company for the purchase money of certain oil well machinery, supplies, and tools. The plaintiff alleged that by assignment he had become the owner of the notes, and that to secure their payment the Wichita River Oil Company had executed and delivered to the Keystone Driller Company a chattel mortgage upon all of the oil well machinery, supplies, and tools sold at the time, and for which the notes were…
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