Rector v. Continental Bank & Trust Co.
Rector v. Continental Bank & Trust Co.
Opinion of the Court
The appellee has filed its motion to be considered with its brief, urging that this court should strike out and not consider the assignments of error presented by the appellants.
“The appellant * * * shall in all cases file with the clerk of the court below all assignments of error, * * * before he takes *310 the transcript * * * record from the clerk’s office.” Art. 1612, R. O. S.
The motion of appellee as to this assignment must be sustained. Rules 23 and 29 for Courts of Civil Appeals (142 S. W. xii); Overton v. Colored Knights of Pythias, 163 S. W. 1053.
This is a suit for the trial of the rights of property. Terrell Rector, Mabel Rector, and Effie Rector, by their next friend and natural guardian, E. R. Rector, presented their claimant’s oath and bond for certain horses, mules, and cattle levied on by the sheriff of Fisher county, as the property of E. R. Rector, by virtue of an-execution issued out of the district court of Tarrant county, November 23, 1914, in cause No. 37316, Continental State Bank of Ft. Worth v. E. R. Rector. Issues were made up under the direction of the trial court and upon a trial before the court, without a jury, resulted in a judgment for the appellee bank, for the value of the property levied on, $365, with interest from the 30th day of December, 1914, with 6 per cent, interest thereon per annum, and 10 per cent, of the value of the property under the statute, $36.50, against the claimants and the sureties on the claimants’ bond. The case is here without a statement of facts, upon the issues presented and upon the findings of the trial court filed in the trial court.
The trial court finds that the execution was levied on the following property: “One Jersey cow, branded T left hip; one Jersey steer yearling; 1 brown Jersey, four years old, branded R on hip; one bay bald-face saddle horse; 1 brown Jersey cow; one brown mare; one bay mare mule” — and that this is the same property claimed by the claimants hi this suit.
The court further finds that the claimants are the children of E. R. Rector. Effie is 14 years old; Mabel 11, and Terrell 10 years old, respectively, all living with their parents, and maintained and supported by them, and not emancipated. That E. R. Rector is insolvent, and had been in failing circumstances since 1907.
“I further find that all of said property claimed by claimants is the direct result of a gift from E. R. Rector to said children and shown to have occurred as follows: That in the summer of 1909, the said E. R. Rector give to his son a horse, and in the summer of 1912-'there-after said father and son sold said horse for $65.00 and said father (E. R. Rector) deposited the money in the First State Bank of Hamlin, Texas, in the name of Terrell Rector; that within a few weeks the son Terrell Rector gave his check on said bank and signed his own name, Terrell Reetor; to said check for $35, to one N. E. Porter; said check being cashed in payment for said one Jersey cow branded T, at that time only a calf, same cow as shown in sheriff’s returns, and its mother which is now dead; that the Jersey yearling levied upon in this cause is the calf of the above Jersey cow branded T, and claimed by Terrell as the increase of cow purchased; that the brown Jersey cow, branded R on hip, and levied upon, was paid for by a check on the above account, with said bank about two years ago, given upon the above said bank, signed by Terrell Rector, and cashed by one Ed Beck in payment of same; that the said brown Jersey cow two or three years old, and levied upon, was obtained by swapping one calf of the above said cow branded R and purchased from Ed Beck, for this one; that about eight years ago, E. R. Rector gave to MabeJ Rector one roan mare, and that within a few months said E. R. Rector and Mabel sold this mare, and after Mabel Rector received the money for said animal, she purchased with this money one sorrel mare which is the mother of the mare mule, levied upon as aforesaid, and has been claimed by Mabel Rector all its life; that the bay bald-face horse claimed by Mabel, and levied upon in this cause, was the colt of the sorrel mare purchased by Mabel with money as aforesaid; that the bay or brown mare, levied upon, and claimed by Effie Rector, and about four or five years old, is a colt of a mare named Criekett, the said Grickett mare being given to Effie by E. R. Rector about seven years ago; that the above seven head of stock is all the stock levied upon in said suit, but that there was a levy made upon a house and lot in block 23 of the town of Royston, Fisher county, Texas, and so shown in the sheriff’s return. That said E. R. Rector does not claim the house and lot. I further find, as a matter of fact, that none of the stock except the T cow was branded for said children, and that no brand was ever placed of record, and that said property has run at large on the range, and that no delivery, other than mentioned above, was ever made of said property from E. R. Rector to said claimants. And that all of said gifts by E. R. Rector to said minors were verbal gifts. I further find that all of said seven head of stock, except two head, is younger than five years of ag&. And some from one year old to five.”
The second assignment is to the effect that the court erred in rendering judgment in favor of appellee for the mule and bald-face horse claimed by Mabel Rector.
The third assignment is that the court erred in holding that the four head of cattle- *311 claimed by Terrell Rector was subject to bis father’s debts.
The fourth assignment is the court erred in holding the mare claimed by Effie Rector was subject to the father’s debts.
The appellee in this case relies upon the statute that:
“No gift of any goods or chattels shall be val.id unless by deed or will, duly acknowledged or proven up or recorded, or unless actual possession shall come to and remain with the agent or some one claiming under him.” Art. 3968, R. C. S.
The trial court having failed to find the separate value of the animals, we cannot therefore reverse and render the judgment as requested by appellant. The case, however, will be reversed and remanded as to all of the claimants.
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