REAVLEY, Justice.
The contest here is over the priority or existence of liens against a tract of 5.33 acres. The lower courts have held that a cotenant, having paid the full mortgage debt and taken an assignment of the note and security interest to protect his claim for contribution from the other cotenant, lost that security by a merger of his legal and equitable interests. We disagree. The facts are set out in more detail in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals...
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