Meier v. Murphy

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a $2,752.63 judgment, in favor of the appellee against the appellants (that is, A. E. Meier, and his surety on several bonds he executed, Fidelity & Deposit .Company of .Maryland), of the 113th District Court of Harris County (Honorable Phil D. Woodruff, Judge Presiding), entered in part upon a jury’s findings in response to some 23 Special Issues submitted, and in part upon three reports of an auditor appointed by the court, its modus operandi — in so entering its decree —having been therein re-cited to be this: “The Court being of the opinion that in…