Beadle v. Bonham State Bank

I see no reason to get hogtied and squeamish over whether the trial court could set off mutual judgments. Texas courts have been doing this long before I was born. See Simpson v. Huston, 14 Tex. 476 (1855); Citizens Industrial Bank v. Oppenheim, 118 S.W.2d 820 (Tex.Civ.App.—Austin 1938, writ dism’d); Pierson v. Farmers’ State Guaranty Bank, 206 S.W. 730 (Tex.Civ.App.—San Antonio 1918, no writ); Davidson v. Lee, 162 S.W. 414 (Tex.Civ.App.—Galveston 1913, no writ); Dutton v. Mason, 52 S.W. 651 (Tex.Civ.App.1899, no writ).

As the majority opinion states, Bonham State Bank’s “primary argument is…