Legal Opinion

De Blane v. Hugh Lynch & Co.

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1859PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Appeal from Liberty. Tried below before the Hon. O. W. Buckley. This was an action for the trial of the right of property in ten bales of cotton, levied upon on the 30th of April, 1849. The record did not show at what time the claimant and the defendant in the execution were married. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.

On the 27th day of October, 1847, Hugh Lynch & Co. obtained judgment in the District Court for Liberty county, against Volizard De Blane, for the sum of one hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty cents, debt, and seventeen dollars and fifteen cents, costs.

On this judgment an execution was issued, and levied on ten bales of cotton. The cotton was claimed by the present appellant, as her separate property. The appellant is the wife of Yolizard De Blane, the defendant in the execution. There was a trial of the right of property. The proof was, that the ten bales of cotton levied on was the…

2Cited by28 opinions

  1. Graham v. FrancoTexas Supreme Court · 1972
  2. Lee v. LeeTexas Supreme Court · 1923
  3. Stephens v. StephensCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1927
  4. Norris v. VaughanTexas Supreme Court · 1953
  5. Hammonds v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1939

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