Bourcier v. Edmondson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. II. Stewart. On the 28th day of January, 1882, L. E. Edmondson, plaintiff below, brought suit against Mrs. A. Bourcier and James L. De Eorrest in the district court for Galveston county, for the recovery of a balance due for rent, and alleged in his petition “ That plaintiff and defendant Mrs. A. Bourcier entered into an agreement whereby defendant Bourcier was to rent and did rent from plaintiff lots numbers 12 and 13,…
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Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. II. Stewart. On the 28th day of January, 1882, L. E. Edmondson, plaintiff below, brought suit against Mrs. A. Bourcier and James L. De Eorrest in the district court for Galveston county, for the recovery of a balance due for rent, and alleged in his petition “ That plaintiff and defendant Mrs. A. Bourcier entered into an agreement whereby defendant Bourcier was to rent and did rent from plaintiff lots numbers 12 and 13, in block Ho. 504, and the improvements thereon, in the city of Galveston, from month to monththat the rent due for said…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
Edmondson sued Mrs. Bourcier to recover $2,595, the amount alleged to be due for rent of a house and lot belonging to Edmondson, and occupied by her as his tenant. Prayer was made for the foreclosure of a landlord’s lien upon certain property of appellant then on the premises, which was described in the petition as “"a large quantity of household furniture and other personal property placed by Mrs. Bourcier on said property, to wit, the rented premises, and owned by her, and now contained in said premises.” The petition further alleged that plaintiff was unable to…
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