Snyder v. Porter
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before T. P. Hughes, Esq., special judge. Suit brought in the district court of Williamson county, on the 11th day of June, 1880, by appellees Wiley & Porter, against appellants D. II.
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Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before T. P. Hughes, Esq., special judge. Suit brought in the district court of Williamson county, on the 11th day of June, 1880, by appellees Wiley & Porter, against appellants D. II. Snyder and others, as trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, at the town of Bound Bock in said Williamson county, for the sum of 0163.20 and interest, and for the foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien alleged to have existed upon the Methodist church, building, situated upon lots designated. It was alleged that the lien was fixed by filing and having recorded a bill of…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.—
The court, having found correctly under the facts that the appellees were not entitled to enforce the lien claimed, should have proceeded no further in the case. The amount not being of itself sufficient to give the court jurisdiction,
' the only ground upon which the power to retain the case could rest was that the appellees were entitled to foreclose the lien set out in their pleadings. Having failed to establish this right, and there being no other feature in this case that would authorize the court to proceed further, the suit should have been dismissed for want of…
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