Haymes v. Gray

Court of Appeals of Texas

Haymes v. Gray

2 Wilson 192

Court of Appeals of Texas·Decided June 11, 1884·No. No. 3051·Published

Opinion

Opinion by

Willson, J.

§ 252. Landlord’s lien; abandonment or waiver of. When a landlord sues to recover rent, and for the enforcement of his lien upon the property of the tenant, which has been seized under a distress warrant, and takes a judgment merely for the rent due, and does not insist upon a foreclosure of his lien in the suit, and there is no foreclosure adjudged, he thereby waives and abandons his lien, and such lien no longer constitutes a right to the property levied on under the distress warrant, and cannot support a claim to the property in a trial'of the [193]*193right of the property. [Wise v. Old, 57 Tex. 514; Toland v. Swearengen, 39 Tex. 447; Johnson v. Murphy, 17 Tex. 216; W. & W. Con. Rep. § 1222.]

June 11, 1884.

Affirmed.

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Opinion by

Willson, J.

§ 252. Landlord’s lien; abandonment or waiver of. When a landlord sues to recover rent, and for the enforcement of his lien upon the property of the tenant, which has been seized under a distress warrant, and takes a judgment merely for the rent due, and does not insist upon a foreclosure of his lien in the suit, and there is no foreclosure adjudged, he thereby waives and abandons his lien, and such lien no longer constitutes a right to the property levied on under the distress warrant, and cannot support a claim to the property in a trial'of the [193]*193right of the property. [Wise v. Old, 57 Tex. 514; Toland v. Swearengen, 39 Tex. 447; Johnson v. Murphy, 17 Tex. 216; W. & W. Con. Rep. § 1222.]

June 11, 1884.

Affirmed.

Haymes v. Gray, 2 Wilson 192 (Tex. Ct. App. 1884).

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