Garcia v. Sanders
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from FTeuces County. Suit by Patrocenia Sanders, the widow, joined by her minor children, against J ose M. Garcia et al., for damages by killing her husband, T. M. Sanders, in which plaintiffs recovered $9000 and the judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by defendants in error, wife and children of Theodore M. Sanders, to recover from plaintiffs in error damages for the alleged wrongful killing of said Sanders. Upon the verdict of a jury judgment was rendered by the trial court in favor of defendants in error for nine thousand dollars, which judgment having been affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals, the cause has been brought to this court by writ of error.
On the trial one of the grounds upon which plaintiffs in error sought to justify the killing was that they were acting in self-defense…
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