White v. Latimer
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Lamar. Petition filed 15th November, 1850. White and wife intermarried in July, 1848. The wife was twenty years of age when married and over twenty-two but not twenty-three years of age when suit was brought.
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
This suit was brought by White and wife, against the defendant, to recover a negro slave, claimed as the property of the wife. The defence set up in the Court below, was the Statute of Limitations, and the only question presented is one of law. At the time the right of action accrued, Mrs. White was an infant, and she married before arriving at the age of twenty-one, by which the disability of infancy ceased, under our statute. (Hart. Dig. Art. 2420.) The suit was not brought until after two years from her marriage ' and the question is whether she can claim the benefit of the exception in…
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