Goldsmith v. Herndon
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Johnson. Tried' below before the- Hon. J. J. Good. This cause has been ably and persistently contested. The present is the third decision of it by this court, re-hearings having been obtained after the first and second determinations of it. Upon each trial of it, however, the result has been the same, although Mr. Justice Lindsay, upon the second hearing of the case, delivered an able dissenting opinion. Goldsmith, the appellant, was the plaintiff below.
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Appeal from Johnson. Tried' below before the- Hon. J. J. Good. This cause has been ably and persistently contested. The present is the third decision of it by this court, re-hearings having been obtained after the first and second determinations of it. Upon each trial of it, however, the result has been the same, although Mr. Justice Lindsay, upon the second hearing of the case, delivered an able dissenting opinion. Goldsmith, the appellant, was the plaintiff below. He derives his title from the sale made by the administrator, which was made early in 1840, before the passage of the act of…
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
This cause has been twice decided by this court, and a rehearing granted each time, and the cause is now submitted on additional argument and brief, both for appellant and appellee ; and after a careful examination of the record and all the authorities at command, bearing upon the single question which we deem material to settle the rights of the parties, we have been unable to discover in either of the able and well digested opinions of this court, delivered in this cause on former occasions, any error sufficient to authorize a change in the general conclusion arrived at in either of those…
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