Legal Opinion
Denton v. Holbert
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided February 16, 1916No. 5582. [fn*]Published
Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; S. G. Tayloe, Judge. Action by J. V. Holbert against G. Denton. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion
On Motion for Rehearing.
The statement in our opinion that “it appears that when Holbert came to San Antonio with Melick he wanted to remain in San Antonio and intrust the further work in Arizona to subagents, and especially to Hudson & Melick,” is vigorously attacked as unsupported by the evidence. We will briefly state some of the evidence on which we based our statement. Denton testified:
“It is a fact that, just as soon as Mr. Holbert told me he wanted to stay here and he could handle Ms business as well by subagents, I told him that if he did not go hack we were going to discharge him.”
Holb…
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