Dodgen v. McCrea
Dodgen v. McCrea
Opinion of the Court
Appellee, McCrea, sued appellant to recover the sum of $1,615.84. It may be inferred from the language of the petition that. appellee conceived that his right to recover was based upon the note? described therein. It appears that appellant, Dodgen, and his partner were indebted to the First National Bank of Roby, and that such indebtedness was evidenced by two notes, one for the sum of $2,241(28 and tha other for the sum of $500, both being due December 5, 1915. Appellee, McCrea, was a surety upon said notes, and he alleges that he was the owner and holder of the notes at the time of the institution of the *72 suit; that on June 23, 1917, he paid said notes to the bank, and they were by the bank transferred to him; that Dodgen had refused to pay the notes, whereupon the bank threatened to sue appellee, and in order to avoid the suit appellee paid off and discharged the balance due, amounting to $1,615.84, and that said bank transferred said notes to appellee, without recourse. The pleading is subject to the construction that the action is based upon the notes themselves, since appellee alleges that he is entitled to recover the attorney’s fees and interest at 10 per cent, as stipulated in the notes. The prayer is for “such' other and further relief, both general and special, that he “may be entitled to, both in law and in equity”; “that he have judgment for his debt in the sum of $1,615.84, interest and attorney’s fees, and costs of suit,” and for the foreclosure of the attachment writ, which had been issued and levied upon certain real estate belonging to Dodgen. By an original answer appellant pleaded the general issue, and specially defended upon the ground that he had been duly adjudged a bankrupt, and discharged from all liability upon said debt. By supplemental petition defendant alleged that the land levied upon was exempt from attachment because it was his homestead. There was a trial to the court without a jury, resulting in a judgment in favor of appellee, which recites:
“That the plaintiff is entitled to recover of D. L. Dodgen, as principal, on his implied obligation to reimburse the plaintiff, for one-half the amount paid by him on the notes described in plaintiff’s petition, together witfi 6 per cent, interest thereon from date of such payment.”
The court further finds as a fact, which is recited in the judgment, that appellant had abandoned the land in question as a homestead before the levy of the attachment thereon. Appellee has not favored us with a brief.-
It is stated in Thompson v. Mills, 45 Tex. Civ. App. 642, 101 S. W. 560, that—
“It is well settled that a clear statement of the facts upon which liability is predicated, followed by a general prayer for relief, will, if the facts show a cause of action, be good as against a general demurrer, even if the suit be brought upon a wrong theory.”
The questions urged here -were not raised either by exception or objection to the testimony, and, under the rule quoted, we think the appellant’s contention should be overruled.
We find no reversible error, and the judgment is affirmed.
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