Burchill v. Hermsmeyer
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County ; R. E. L. Roy, Judge. Suit by H. C. Hermsmeyer against Belle M. Burchill and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtFly, C. J.
This suit was instituted by ap-pellee against Belle M. Burchill, Edna M. Burchill, and h’ort Worth Oil Development Company, the latter having Belle M. Burchill as its president, and Edna M. Burchill as its secretary, to recover $10,000, which appellee claimed was obtained from him by the appellants by fraud and misrepresentation. Appel-lee pleaded that at the time he was dealing with appellants and investing his money in oil that did not materialize he “was a believer in the theories, practices, predictions, and phenomena of spiritualism and spiritualistic mediums, but the defendants were not…
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- G., C. & S. F. R'y Co. v. LevyTexas Supreme Court · 1883
- Tucker v. HamlinTexas Supreme Court · 1883
- Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. ThomasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1910
- Burchill v. HermsmeyerCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1919
- Gulf Pipe Line Co. v. HurstCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1921
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