Legal Opinion

First Baptist Church of Taft v. West

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided June 29, 1938No. 10254Published

1Opinion of the Court

SMITH, Chief Justice.

This is the second appeal in this case. West et al. v. First Baptist Church, Tex.Civ.App., 42 S.W.2d 1078; Id., 123 Tex. 388, 71 S.W.2d 1090.

The suit was originally brought by the First Baptist Church of Taft to cancel certain" promissory notes for amounts aggregating $20,000, admittedly executed by it in favor of Southern Mortgage Company, a Texas corporation, and afterwards transferred by' that concern to Mortgage & Securities Company, a Louisiana corporation, and by it to Mrs. Ethelyn West (for herself and her two sisters) a resit dent of the City of New Orleans, who…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Carpenter v. LonganSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
  2. West v. First Bap. Ch. of TaftTexas Supreme Court · 1934
  3. Forster v. Enid, O. W. R. Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1915
  4. West v. First Baptist Church of TaftCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1931
  5. Dickson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1934

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