Hanrick v. Alexander
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. X. B. Saunders. Suit was brought on two promissory notes for land, executed by J. E. Burt to E. G. Hanrick, dated October 22, 1870, one due on or before January 1,1871, and the other on or before January 1,1872, both indorsed by the payee in blank, and both were made on the same day and delivered to Jesse Blocker, the then husband of the plaintiff, Mary W. Alexander.
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Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. X. B. Saunders. Suit was brought on two promissory notes for land, executed by J. E. Burt to E. G. Hanrick, dated October 22, 1870, one due on or before January 1,1871, and the other on or before January 1,1872, both indorsed by the payee in blank, and both were made on the same day and delivered to Jesse Blocker, the then husband of the plaintiff, Mary W. Alexander. Jesse Blocker died a few days after the delivery of the notes to him, and his surviving wife subsequently married Alexander. When Blocker died ho left two minor children, one by a…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The judgment in this case must be reversed, for fundamental errors apparent upon the record, in this: that it is uncertain and incomplete; that it purports to adjust all the equities between the parties when the pleadings did not authorize it; that there was a personal judgment rendered against the defendant E. G-. Hanrick, which was not warranted by the case as presented by the record.
As the cause must be remanded, we proceed to indicate our opinion of the law upon questions which the record shows may arise upon another trial.
1. Neither upon principle—because…
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