Burke v. Brown

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs brought this suit to remove, as a cloud upon their title, a lien asserted by the defendant Brown against their lot of land situated in the city of Galveston, for furnishing tools to move a house onto said lot. Defendant pleaded in reconvention his statutory lien account, and sought judgment for .his debt with foreclosure. From a judgment in favor of defendant this appeal has been taken.

At the request of the plaintiff James J. Burke the defendant, Brown, rented to him certain tools, which the plaintiff used for the purpose of moving a house from elsewhere onto…