Morris v. Burrows
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Bowie County Court; P. A. Turner, Special Judge. Action by G. W. Burrows and others against G. W. Morris and others. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLevy, J.
This is an action for debt by the appellees, as landlords, against G. W. Morris, their tenant, for rents and advances for the year 1914 in the sum of $5S4.40, and for foreclosure of the landlord’s lien, and against appellants for the value'of lO^ bales of cotton, $420.00, alleged to have been converted by them at a time when the plaintiff had a subsisting and unsatisfied lien on the same. The defendants denied the existence of a landlord’s lien at the time of the alleged conversion, averring that the lien had expired by reason of the fact that the cotton had been off the rented premises for…
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