Hance v. Burke
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before Hon. W. H. Stewart. This is appeal from a judgment recovered by Burke against W. B. Hance for $686. The trial was upon an amended original petition. The caption and the material parts are given:
1Opinion of the Court
Henry, Associate Justice.—
Appellee, who was plaintiff in the District Court, charged that W. B. Hance and Emma Hance took unlawful, forcible, and malicious possession of certain wearing apparel and household effects belonging to him, for which he claimed damages, actual and exemplary.
The defendants answered that Emma Hance was the wife of her codefendant, and denying the allegations of plaintiff’s petition.
There was a verdict for plaintiff for a sum of money as actual damages, on which judgment was rendered in his favor against W. B. Hance and against him in favor of Emma Hance. The defendant…
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