Legal Opinion

Maddox v. Summerlin

Texas Supreme Court

Decided April 3, 1899No. 756PublishedCited by 64 opinions

Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Maddox et al. brought suit against Summerlin a-nd wife and appealed from a judgment for defendants, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.

1Opinion of the Court

BROWN, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the plaintiffs in error against R. L. Summerlin and his wife, on July 30, 1897, to subject a certain lot, with others, in the city of San Antonio to the payment of a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiffs in error ¡against R. L. Summerlin and others. The lot was the separate property of Mrs. Summerlin, and upon it was erected a house alleged to have been built by R. L. Summerlin with money which belonged to the community estate of himself and wife. The plaintiffs sought to subject to the payment of their debt the value of the…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Clayton v. HurtTexas Supreme Court · 1895
  2. McMurray v. McMurrayTexas Supreme Court · 1887
  3. Buchanan v. BilgerTexas Supreme Court · 1885
  4. Blair v. SmithIndiana Supreme Court · 1888
  5. Peck v. BrummagimCalifornia Supreme Court · 1866

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3Cited by64 opinions

  1. Dakan v. DakanTexas Supreme Court · 1935
  2. Glenn v. Dallas County Bois D'Arc Island Levee DistrictTexas Supreme Court · 1925
  3. Shaw v. BernalCalifornia Supreme Court · 1912
  4. Jeff Davis County v. DavisCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1917
  5. Stolte v. KarrenCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1916

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