Morgan v. Oliver
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Donley County. Callie Morgan, joined by her husband, sued Oliver and others for damages, and the trial court instructed the return of a verdict for defendants. On their appeal the judgment was affirmed as to certain defendants and reversed and remanded as to others. Appellants obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The plaintiffs, who were husband and wife, brought this suit against the defendant Oliver, who, in the year 1901, the time of the injuries complained of, was the sheriff of Donley County; against the sureties on his official bond, and against B. H. White and four others who were at the time the county judge and the commissioners of the county. The plaintiffs alleged in their petition, in Substance, that Mrs. Morgan was the owner in her separate right of a section of land in Donley County, which was fenced and upon which crops had been planted and were growing; that the…
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