Legal Opinion

Smith v. Dickey

Texas Supreme Court

Decided May 17, 1889No. 6080PublishedCited by 31 opinions

Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. J. Y. Hogsett, Special Judge. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

Gaines, Associate Justice.

The suit was brought by appellee against appellant to recover on an account for services in preparing sketches and estimates of a hotel building to be erected in the city of Fort Worth. Upon the trial the question of limitation arose, and the rulings of the court upon that question are assigned as error on this appeal.

*63The sketches and estimates were completed by appellee and delivered to appellant on July 3,1883. His cause of action, there being no express contract as to the time of payment, then accrued. He did not bring his suit until July 3, 1885. Whether the…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Burr v. LewisTexas Supreme Court · 1851
  2. Brown v. BuzanIndiana Supreme Court · 1865
  3. Protection Life Insurance v. PalmerIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
  4. Tachau v. FiedeldeyIndiana Supreme Court · 1881
  5. Watkins v. P. J. Willis & Bro.Texas Supreme Court · 1883

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3Cited by31 opinions

  1. Capitol Hotel Co. v. RittenberryCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1931
  2. Williams v. City of Angleton, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1987
  3. Nebola v. Minnesota Iron Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
  4. City of Houston v. GloverCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1905
  5. Tackett v. MiddletonTexas Commission of Appeals · 1926

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