Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, 1922

Thweatt v. Wichita County Lumber Co.

Thweatt v. Wichita County Lumber Co.
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas · Decided January 21, 1922 · Buck
238 S.W. 310; 1922 Tex. App. LEXIS 418 (South Western Reporter)

Thweatt v. Wichita County Lumber Co.

Opinion of the Court

BUCK, J.

The Wichita County Lumber Company sued Ed Harrison and J. D. Thweátt, alleged to be doing business under the firm name of Harrison & Thweatt, for a bill of lumber alleged to have been bought by the defendants, amounting to $2,781.67. Plaintiff also alleged a materialman’s lien against certain described land, and sought a foreclosure. Harrison and Thweatt both filed a plea of privilege, to be sued in Dallas county, and plaintiff filed a controverting affidavit. The court ovérruled said plea. Harrison then filed a motion to quash the citation as to him, which motion was sustained, and plaintiff took a nonsuit as to Harrison, and the ease was prosecuted to judgment against Thweatt individually, and from a judgment in the amount sued for, with 6 per cent, interest, with a foreclosure of the materialman’s lien, Thweatt has appealed.

Appellant has not filed a brief in this court, but appellee has done so, under rule 42 (142 S. W. xiv) promulgated by the Supreme Court for the government of Courts of Civil Appeals, and has framed its propositions so as to authorize us to affirm the judgment below. Under the statements in ap-pellee’s brief. and the quotations from the statement of facts, it becomes our duty to affirm the judgment below, which is accordingly done. Reece v. Langley (Tex. Civ. App.) 230 S. W. 509.

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