Martin v. Bell-Woods Co., 8940.
Decision Date | 14 December 1932 |
Docket Number | No. 8940.,8940. |
Citation | 57 S.W.2d 271 |
Parties | MARTIN v. BELL-WOODS CO., Inc., et al. |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Hidalgo County; Chas. E. Thompson, Judge.
Suit by Joseph Martin against the Bell-Woods Company, Incorporated, and others. From the judgment granting plaintiff insufficient relief, he appeals.
Affirmed in part, reversed and remanded in part, and reversed and rendered in part.
J. Cullen Looney, of Edinburg, for appellant.
E. A. McDaniel, of McAllen, and J. C. Epperson and Carl & Leslie, all of Edinburg, for appellees.
Appellant filed this suit against appellees for the rescission of a contract for the sale of land and the recovery of money paid on the contract, with interest. This is a fraud case.
Plaintiff alleged:
Default judgment was entered against M. L. Woods and Bell-Woods Company because of the failure of said defendants to appear and answer.
The plaintiff filed his first amended original petition in the cause, to which defendant George Earnhardt demurred, and it was sustained by the court; the court holding that the cause of action set forth in the first amended original petition was based partly upon contract and partly upon tort, and would therefore have to be plead in two separate counts, to which action of the court the plaintiff excepted, but, in obedience to the ruling of the court, amended and filed his second amended original petition, setting out his cause of action in two separate counts. The pleading is too lengthy to copy.
At the conclusion of the trial, the court gave its peremptory instruction in favor of plaintiff, Joseph Martin, against the defendant, Bell-Woods Company, for the sum of $3,289, together with interest on $250 from April 17, 1929, and on $750 from May 23, 1929, and interest on $2,289 from June 27, 1929, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and also instructed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendants George Earnhardt, L. R. Bell, and M. L. Woods, and against the plaintiff, Joseph Martin; and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the peremptory instruction given to them by the court.
The court entered judgment upon said verdict of the jury on the 10th day of February, A. D. 1932, that the plaintiff, Joseph Martin, have and recover of and from the defendant, Bell-Woods Company, Inc., the sum of $3,824.17, together with interest thereon from February 10, 1932, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and further decreed that the plaintiff, Joseph Martin, take nothing as against the defendants, George Earnhardt, L. R. Bell, and M. L. Woods.
We think the court erred in sustaining an exception to the pleading and requiring the appellant to file an amendment, because under the practice in Texas a pleading of tort and for damages may be properly joined in the same suit, when they grow out of the same transaction and relate to each other.
We think the court erred in excluding from the evidence the photographs marked for identification, 9 GEB, 10 GEB, 11 GEB, and 12 GEB, because they were material upon the issue of the suitability of the land in question for citrus culture.
Joseph Martin was entitled to a judgment against M. L. Woods for the amount determined. Said original petition stated a cause of action for damages sustained. Appellant had been induced to part with his money, because of false representations made to him by defendants in regard to the suitability of the land for citrus culture, but before he discovered that such representations were false, the defendants breached the contract which had been induced by their fraud, and, because of such breach, the plaintiff refused to go ahead with the contract.
The plaintiff, having testified that the defendants, M. L. Woods, L. R. Bell, and especially George Earnhardt, made representations to him in regard to quality, acreage, value, and title of a tract of land, and induced him to...
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