Lee v. Turner
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn. This is an appeal from a judgment allowing damages against the appellant for wilfully, and with intent to injure, leasing premises adjoining the home of the plaintiff, to prostitutes for the purposes of prostitution; it being alleged that the leased premises had been so used after the lease to the annoyance and injury to plaintiffs’, etc.
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Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn. This is an appeal from a judgment allowing damages against the appellant for wilfully, and with intent to injure, leasing premises adjoining the home of the plaintiff, to prostitutes for the purposes of prostitution; it being alleged that the leased premises had been so used after the lease to the annoyance and injury to plaintiffs’, etc. The questions noticed in the opinion arose upon questions of pleading and practice, and the facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, Associate Justice.
This suit was filed March 18, 1884, by Mrs. L. M. Turner and her husband, E. S. Turner, for damages to her undivided “one-third interest in the north half of lots one and two, in block eighteen, and in the two story rock house thereon, in the town of Belton,” caused by defendant leasing his half of said rock house to prostitutes, etc. The defendant excepted to the petition because it disclosed other tenants in common not joined as plaintiffs. June 5, 1886, by leave of the court, Olivia C. Best joined as plaintiff, claiming one-third interest, and the alleged heirs of…
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