De Garcia v. San Antonio & A. P. Ry. Co.
Decision Date | 11 November 1903 |
Citation | 77 S.W. 275 |
Parties | DE GARCIA v. SAN ANTONIO & A. P. RY. CO.<SMALL><SUP>*</SUP></SMALL> |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; J. L. Camp, Judge.
Suit by Josephine De Garcia against the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Company. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
C. L. McGill and A. E. Heilbron, for appellant. Houston Bros. and R. J. Boyle, for appellee.
This is a suit instituted by appellant to recover damages for the death of her husband, and to set aside a judgment. Special exceptions were sustained to the petition, and, appellant refusing to amend, the cause was dismissed.
Appellant, after setting up her cause of action against appellee on account of the death of her husband, Alcario Garcia, alleged that he left surviving him, by a former marriage, two minor children, named, respectively, Concepcion and Leonides Garcia; that on January 11, 1902, they had, in the same district court in which appellant had sued, through their next friend, Augustine Trinidad, instituted a suit for their damages, and had in bad faith joined appellant in the suit, without her knowledge or consent. Fraud and collusion were charged against the minors and the appellee to defeat the claim of appellant. It was alleged that in furtherance of the fraud the minors made the following allegations in their petition: The allegations as to abandonment of her husband by appellant, and that he had not contributed to her support, are alleged to be false, and the petition proceeds as follows: It was alleged that in furtherance of the fraudulent design a judgment was obtained in the district court on February 7, 1902, before the court without a jury, in favor of the minors, for $2,000, but the judgment as to appellant was as follows: ...
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