Hicks v. Texas Loan & Investment Co.

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought by appellee against appellant, Sadie Hicks, and her husband, William Hicks, to recover upon three promissory notes for $400 each executed by said defendants in favor of William Smith and transferred and assigned to appellee by said Smith, and to foreclose a mechanic’s lien upon lots 5 and 6 in block 12 in Cascara Addition to the city of Houston, given by said defendants to secure the payment of said notes.

The defendants answered by general demurrer and general denial, and further pleaded that the property upon which the lien was sought to be…