Chenowth v. Beckham

BARCUS, J. This is an appeal from an interlocutory order entered by the trial court overruling appellant’s plea of privilege. Appellees filed this suit, alleging that they had by deed sold and conveyed to ap>-pellant 320 acres of land in Freestone county, and had taken as part consideration therefor certain notes which appellant had represented to be valid subsisting lien notes on other tracts of land and had agreed to indorse and guarantee the payment of said notes. They further alleged that the notes which had been given were bogus, that appellant had perpetrated a fraud upon them, and that the consideration paid them for the land had totally failed, and they alleged that by reason thereof appellant was indebted to them for the value of said land and that they were entitled to an equitable lien on the land to secure the payment thereof. Appellees’ cause of action depends in its entirety upon their right to recover judgment for part of the purchase money for the sale of the land and to fix and foreclose a lien securing same. Subdivision 12 of article 1995 of the Revised Statutes 1925, provides that: “A suit for the foreclosure of a mortgage or other lien may be brought in the county where the property or any part thereof subject to such lien is situated.” If appellees are entitled to any judgment against appellant, they are entitled to an equitable lien on the land, together with a foreclosure thereof, since it appears that no intervening purchasers or creditors are affected thereby. Luse v. Beard (Tex. Civ. App.) 252 S. W. 243, and authorities there cited. Appellees’ suit being one to establish and foreclose a lien on land which is located in Freestone county, the trial court did not commit error in overruling the plea .of privilege. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.