Legal Opinion

Dinwiddie v. Jordan

Texas Commission of Appeals

Decided March 2, 1921No. 204-3282PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Seventh Supreme Judicial District. Suit by Mrs. L. W. Jordan against W. O. and J. R. Dinwiddie. From judgment for defendants, plaintiff appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals, which reversed, and render-eel judgment in favor of plaintiff (205 S. W. 862), and defendants bring error.

1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.

Mrs. L. W. Jordan, acting for herself and as community survivor of herself and deceased husband and others, instituted this suit in the ordinary form of trespass to try title to recover of plaintiffs in error, the lands described in the petition, and to recover the value of certain wheat grown upon lands alleged to have been converted by plaintiffs in error.

The controversy grows out of a lease contract covering the land in question, entered into by W. C. Dinwiddie, as lessee, and defendant in error and others, as lessors, on the 9th day of May, A. D. 1913. The lease was for a term of five…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Edghill v. MankeyNebraska Supreme Court · 1907
  2. Jordan v. DinwiddieCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1918
  3. Miller v. WohlfordIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
  4. Harwood v. WilliamsMichigan Supreme Court · 1910
  5. Toles v. MeddaughMichigan Supreme Court · 1895

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Wootton v. BishopCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1923
  2. Bateman v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1927
  3. Miller v. GrayCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1937
  4. Kaler v. Slominski (In re Keeley & Grabanski Land Partnership)United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit · 2015
  5. Miller v. LewisCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1925

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