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Heard v. McKinney

Texas Commission of Appeals

Decided April 19, 1880No. Case No. 3847PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from Collin. Tried below before the Hon. Joseph Bledsoe. ’ This action was instituted in the district court of Collin county, by the appellant, against Francis E. McKinney and-Charles W. McKinney, filed 8th February, 1877, alleging in substance that James McKinney, the husband of Francis E. and the father of Charles W., on the 1st of January, 1874, made and delivered to plaintiff his promissory note for $590, due one day after date, with interest at twelve per cent,…

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Appeal from Collin. Tried below before the Hon. Joseph Bledsoe. ’ This action was instituted in the district court of Collin county, by the appellant, against Francis E. McKinney and-Charles W. McKinney, filed 8th February, 1877, alleging in substance that James McKinney, the husband of Francis E. and the father of Charles W., on the 1st of January, 1874, made and delivered to plaintiff his promissory note for $590, due one day after date, with interest at twelve per cent, per annum. That sáid James McKinney afterwards, on the 31st day of August, 1874, conveyed by deed to the said Francis E.…

1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.

— The judgment of the court presents merely, in the ordinary form of similar entries, the action *86taken by the court in sustaining an exception to the petition, where the plaintiff, as he did in this case, declines to amend, viz.: to render a final judgment in the premises in favor of the defendant against the plaintiff. The views of the law as held by the court in rendering the judgment are not made otherwise apparent to us than as may be drawn from the general conclusion stated in the judgment; the specifications of objections in the assignment of errors relating to the legal views which…

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