Legal Opinion

Stevens v. Cobern

Texas Supreme Court

Decided June 11, 1919No. 2720PublishedCited by 22 opinions

Error to the Court of Civil Appeals' for the Third District, in an appeal from McCulloch County. Stevens sued Cobern and others on a note, attaching property claimed to have been fraudulently conveyed. They had judgment for their debt and subjecting the attached property to its payment. On appeal the judgment was reversed and foreclosure of the attachment lien denied (167 S. W., 207). Stevens and son then obtained writ of. error.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood

Plaintiffs in error brought this suit to recover a judgment against Ben Polk and G. B. Cobern upon their note, and to subject to its payment 335 acres of land, attached by plaintiffs in error and alleged to have been conveyed by G. B. Cobern to his mother, Mrs. M. S. Bollo, in fraud of his creditors.

The trial court rendered judgment, awarding to plaintiffs in error all the relief sought by them, which was reversed on appeal of G. ECobern and Mrs. M. S. Rollo.

The judgment of the trial court was based upon a special verdict by the jury, to the effect that $7404 was the reasonable cash market…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Fowler v. StoneumTexas Supreme Court · 1854
  2. Black v. VaughanTexas Supreme Court · 1888
  3. Cole v. TerrellTexas Supreme Court · 1888
  4. Coughran v. EdmondsonTexas Supreme Court · 1915
  5. Rilling v. SchultzeTexas Supreme Court · 1902

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Bianco v. LayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
  2. LaForce v. BrackenTexas Supreme Court · 1943
  3. Hartman v. HartmanTexas Supreme Court · 1940
  4. Osherow v. Porras (In Re Porras)United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Texas · 2004
  5. Spencer v. PettitCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1924

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