Beyersdorff v. Spillar, 11977.

Decision Date26 October 1949
Docket NumberNo. 11977.,11977.
Citation224 S.W.2d 272
PartiesBEYERSDORFF v. SPILLAR et al.
CourtTexas Court of Appeals

Hardin & Little, Edinburg, for appellant.

Oxford & Ramsour, Edinburg, for appellees.

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing appellant's suit upon the sustaining of a plea in abatement.

Appellees have neither filed a brief nor submitted oral argument, consequently, we accept as correct the statements in appellant's brief as to the facts and the record. Rule 419, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. Headstream v. Mangum, Tex. Civ.App., 174 S.W.2d 496.

Appellant, Herman Beyersdorff, plaintiff below brought this suit for damages against B. A. Spillar, B. R. Bentley and Burton Benson, alleging that they had signed a bond which was made the basis of a writ of attachment in a certain cause then pending in the District Court of Hidalgo County, 92d District, styled San Pat Vegetable Co. v. Herman Beyersdorff, and bearing docket number A-7444. It was alleged that certain personal property of appellant was seized under the writ; that Spillar signed the bond as principal instead of the San Pat Vegetable Company; that the attachment was wrongfully issued and that as a result Beyersdorff suffered damages.

In their plea appellees asserted: "That the plaintiff's petition on its face shows that this is a suit for damages for the wrongful issuance and levy of an attachment in cause No. A-7444, in the 92nd District Court, and that the Plaintiff's only cause of action is by virtue of what he calls a wrongful issuance of said writ, and that all the matters complained of therein as shown by paragraph five of his petition have heretofore been adjudicated in cause No. A-7444, and that the attachment lien was foreclosed in said suit, and that the plaintiff herein has appealed from such foreclosure, which appeal is still pending. That in foreclosing such lien, all matters of the wrongful issue, issuance of the attachment were necessarily adjudicated against the plaintiff herein, and this suit is prematurely brought, because all matters complained of have heretofore been tried by the 92nd District Court in said case, and necessarily found against the plaintiff and it is apparent from the plaintiff's own pleading that the attachment was not wrongfully issued, and that the plaintiff has no cause of action against these defendants for a wrongful issue of such attachment, because of the judgment heretofore entered in said cause as pleaded...

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  • Clement v. Frantz
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Appeals
    • February 22, 1960
    ...224 S.W.2d 520 (writ refused); Doherty v. Jensen, Tex.Civ.App., 174 S.W.2d 77, modified 143 Tex. 64, 183 S.W.2d 453; Beyersdorff v. Spillar, Tex.Civ.App., 224 S.W.2d 272; Headstream v. Mangum, Tex.Civ.App., 174 S.W.2d Considering the case on this basis, the only time an agreement could have......
  • Bailey v. Parker, 6696
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Appeals
    • September 16, 1957
    ...without changing this rule in 143 Tex. 64, 183 S.W.2d 453; Headstream v. Mangum, Tex.Civ.App., 174 S.W.2d 496; Beyersdorff v. Spillar, Tex.Civ.App., 224 S.W.2d 272; Gonzales v. Gonzales, Tex.Civ.App., 224 S.W.2d 520; Howell v. Loftis, Tex.Civ.App., 299 S.W.2d Appellant asserts and cites the......
  • Howell v. Loftis
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Appeals
    • February 25, 1957
    ...Tex.Civ.App., 174 S.W.2d 77, reversed in part on other grounds, Pearson v. Doherty, 143 Tex. 64, 183 S.W.2d 453; Beyersdorff v. Spiller, Tex.Civ.App., 224 S.W.2d 272. It has also been held, in construing said rule, that where appellants complained by proper points of order overruling their ......
  • Texas Emp. Ins. Ass'n v. Baeza
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Appeals
    • May 31, 1979
    ...Austin 1932, writ dism'd); Forman v. Prince, 97 S.W.2d 1002, 1005 (Tex.Civ.App. Dallas 1936, no writ). Accord, Beyersdorff v. Spillar, 224 S.W.2d 272, 273 (Tex.Civ.App. San Antonio 1949, no writ). This principle is particularly applicable where, as here the dismissal would foreclose the ref......
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