Legal Opinion

Briggs v. Avary

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided November 16, 1907PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Ward County. Tried below before Hon. James S. Shepherd.

1Opinion of the Court

CONNER, Chief Justice.

—J. C. A vary filed this suit in the District Court of Ward County on the 37th day of April, 1904, against Geo. E. Briggs to recover the rental value for the 3'ears 1903, 1903, 1904 and 1905 of a certain gin site and of a certain water power used in operating a gin erected on the right of way of an irrigation ditch formerly owned by tbe Margueretta Company.

The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for appellee in the sum of seven hundred dollars, and the assignments of error on appeal to this court present two principal questions: First, did the court properly…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. First National Bank of Jacksboro v. LasaterSupreme Court of the United States · 1905

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Planters' Oil Co. v. GreshamCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1918
  2. Crawford v. HortonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1937
  3. Davis v. Victoria Land & Loan Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1936

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