Teagarden v. R. B. Godley Lumber Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fifth District, in an appéál from Wood County. Teagarden had judgment in the trial court against the R. B. Godley Lumber Co. in a suit brought against that defendant and others. The company prosecuted error, and on reversal with judgment rendered by the Appellate Court (135 S. W., 1109) Teagarden obtained writ of error from the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brown
W. B. Teagarden instituted this suit against the R. B. Godley Lumber Company, a corporation, and against R. B. Godley, J. K. Rucker, W. H. Wroten, C. C. Slaughter, Sr., C. C. Slaughter, Jr., and G. G. Wright to recover a one-third interest in 1,111 acres of land and damages. Upon the trial the judge of the District Court entered the following order upon the motion of the defendants for instruction: “Now, on this the 27th day of November, 1908, at the conclusion of plaintiff’s testimony in this cause, the defendants, C. C. Slaughter, Sr., C. C. Slaughter, Jr., G. G. Wright, and the R. B.…
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