David v. Roe

Walter David, plaintiff, sued W. W. Roe, a nonresident, in the district court of Stephens county on a rental contract under which it was alleged that defendant had agreed to pay rental for a building in Breekenridge owned by plaintiff, at the rate of $75 per month, amounting in the aggregate to a sum largely in excess of the minimum jurisdiction of the district court, and sought a foreclosure of his landlord’s lien against certain machinery located in said building. The Hughes-O’Rourke Construction Company, a corporation, intervened, setting up a claim of a chattel mortgage lien against the…