Hilton v. Gray
Hilton v. Gray
Opinion of the Court
In a suit filed in a district court of Dallas county, Claude C. Gray, trustee, appellee, recovered a personal judgment against appellant, Warnie H. Hilton, in the sum of $1,266, of which $931.20 is principal and $134.80 is accrued interest since January 1, 1933, and $200.as a reasonable attorney fee, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from date of judgment; and also a judgment of foreclosure against said appellant and wife, Lola Belle Hilton, on certain described land in the city of Floyd-ada, Floyd county, Tex., to secure a-lien for the indebtedness. Appellants duly perfected an'appeal.
Although filed as a separate suit, this is a companion suit to Davis v. Gray, 103 S.W.
The facts in both suits are the same, except as to dates and the amounts of indebtedness. For a statement of necessary facts, we refer to the opinion in such companion suit, and also for the reasons which moved this court to affirm the judgment of the lower court.
Affirmed.
070rehearing
On Rehearing.
This is a companion case to that of Davis v. Gray, on which we have this day written on a motion for rehearing. We adopt, in the instant case, the opinion bn rehearing written in the former case, with the addition that, in the instant case, the paving certificate represents both a valid debt and a valid lien on the abutting property of appellants.
The motion for rehearing is granted, in respect to the validity of the paving lien, and the indebtedness as shown by the paving certificate issued to the contractor; the motion for rehearing by appellant is overruled.
Motion overruled.
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