Muse v. Burns
Muse v. Burns
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
§ 73. Value of services sued for; proof of dispensed ivilh, when; case stated. Appellee sued appellants to recover for allegéd services performed by him for appellant, Mary Muse, then Mary Harold; for money paid out by him for her; for the purchase price of property sold by him to her, and for property belonging to him converted by her. The alleged indebtedness all accrued prior to appellants’ intermarriage with each other. Appellee recovered judgment for $649.02, that is, for $458.57 with eight per cent, interest thereon from May 8, 1884, and $140 with eight per cent, interest thereon from January 1, 1885. The first error assigned is that the verdict and judgment are unsupported by the evidence as to certain items of the alleged indebtedness, in that there is no evidence of the value of the services, etc., sued for. To this assignment it is a sufficient answer to state that it was proved that appellee presented to Mrs. Muse a full statement of his account against her, embracing all of said items, and showing the amount due him therefor, and that she admitted the correctness of said account at the time, to wit, May 8,1884, and that she justly owed every cent of it, and promised him that she would pay it. This dispensed with the necessity of any further proof as to the value of the services, etc. [R. R. Co. v. Ross, 62 Tex. 447.]
§ 74. Erroneous charge; verdict conirary to, will not he set aside, when. It appears from a supplemental petition,. and fronn the evidence, that a portion of appellee’s
§ 75. Prívale writings; production of, on trial; practice as to. On the trial, appellee, being a witness in his own behalf, on cross-examination testified that he had receipts for some of the moneys claimed to have been paid out by him for Mrs. Muse, and had the same then in his possession. Thereupon appellants’ counsel demanded that he should produce the receipts for their inspection. He offered to comply with this demand, upon condition that the receipts should be read in evidence. Appellants’ counsel declined to inspect them upoii this condition, and appellee refused to produce'them, and the court declined to require him to produce them, to which ruling of the court appellants excepted and
§ 7 6. Demand of payment; interest. Plaintiff alleged in his petition that he had demanded payment of the indebtedness claimed by him, but did not allege the date of such demand. The petition was not specially excepted to because of this omission. It was proved that he made such demand on May 8, 1884, as to all of said indebtedness except the item of $140 purchase money for his crop, which item was not due until in the fall of 1884. The verdict of the jury and the judgment allowr interest on all of said indebtedness except said $140 from May 8, 1884. This is assigned as error. Held: All the items of indebtedness except the $140 purchase money of crop, and the item for the value of the corn converted, accrued and were due in 1883, and would properly bear interest from January 1, 1884. [R. S. art. 2977; 2 W. Con. Rep. § 560.] The conversion of the corn occurred May 5, 1884, and interest upon that item began to accrue from that date. Interest upon the $140 purchase money for the corn was allowed from January 1, 1885, which was correct. There is no error in the judgment in the matter of interest.
§77. Judgment; form of, ag.ainst married woman for debt contracted dum sola. It was not error to direct in the judgment that execution should be levied upon the separate property of Mrs. Muse only. [W. & W. Con. Rep. § 145.]
Affirmed.
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