Ingersol v. McWillie
Texas Supreme Court
Application for writ of error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Grayson County. The following extract from the opinion in the Court of Civil Appeals will show the matters referred to in the refusal to grant the writ of error: “The testimony of the witness had already shown relations towards A. S. Collins which were more than friendly during the time of the claimed marriage relation between him and Hortense Dix Collins.
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Application for writ of error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Grayson County. The following extract from the opinion in the Court of Civil Appeals will show the matters referred to in the refusal to grant the writ of error: “The testimony of the witness had already shown relations towards A. S. Collins which were more than friendly during the time of the claimed marriage relation between him and Hortense Dix Collins. Her testimony was largely of declarations of Collins, which it was claimed were communicated to the witness in the closest confidence in his own…
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
We are of the opinion, that the application in this case shows no error for which the judgment ought to be reversed. We can not, except for special reasons, undertake to give the grounds for our conclusions in refusing to grant a petition for a writ of error. But in this case we are not prepared to hold that the trial court did not err in requiring the witness Lydia Hawley to answer the questions whether she had not had sexual intercourse with Collins, and whether she had not visited a house of ill-fame. We do not find it necessary to decide the point. If error at all,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Kennedy v. International-Great Northern R. Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1928
- Ingersol v. McWillieCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1895
- Gowin v. GowinCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1924
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