Kanz v. P. J. Willis & Bro.

40 S.W. 171, 16 Tex. Civ. App. 12, 1897 Tex. App. LEXIS 145

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: April 1, 1897
• Status: Published

Opinion

WILLIAMS,

Associate Justice.—This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee, a private corporation, against appellant, for a tract of land in controversy between them. The only question involved is as to the sufficiency of the indexing of an abstract of a judgment under which appellee claimed, and which was essential to its title.

The judgment was one recovered by appellee, as a corporation, against J. 0. Mullen and G. W. Allen, and an abstract of it was filed and registered in ,the office of the county clerk of Lavaca County. The index made of the registration was as follows:

Under the letter “W”: “Willis, P. J., & Bro. vs. J. C. Mullen and G. W. Allen, p. 293.” Under the letter “M”: “Mullen, J. 0., and G. W. Allen, P. J. Willis vs., p. 293.” Under the letter “A”: “Allen, G. W., and J. C. Mullen, P. .J. Willis vs.”

Appellee claimed the land in controversy under a sale by virtue of an execution on this judgment, and appellant claimed under a deed from J. 0. Allen, both subsequent to the registration of the abstract.

We are of the opinion that the names of both plaintiff and defendants in the judgment appear from the index, and that it was sufficient to give rise to the statutory lien on the property of the judgment debtors. Burnett v. Cockshott, 21 S. W. Rep., 950; Glasscock v. Stringer, 32 S. W. Rep., 923.

The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.