O'HARA v. Hexter

HUMPHREYS, Justice.

Appellant, John G. O’Hara, appeals from a directed verdict. Louis J. Hexter had sued on an alleged $40,000 loan evidenced by a letter agreement and the First National Bank in Dallas became the substituted plaintiff upon Hexter’s death. Many of appellant’s twenty-one points of error are but shades of the other and the principal issue concerns the application in this case of Tex.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 3716 (Vernon 1928), commonly called “The Dead Man’s Statute,” and the parol evidence'rule. We hold the directed verdict was proper and any error in exclusion of evidence was…