Browning v. Miller

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Mrs. Grace Mays Browning, joined by her husband, W. I. Browning, to recover a balance alleged to be due for services rendered by plaintiff, Grace Mays, before her marriage, as deputy clerk of the county court of Tarrant county during the years 1933 and 1934. W. W. Miller, the county clerk during those years, who employed her, the National Surety Company, surety on his official bond, and Tarrant county, were all made parties defendant.

The trial court sustained a general demurrer to plaintiff’s petition, and dismissed the suit after she had…