Wessendorff v. Aylor
Decision Date | 01 March 1928 |
Docket Number | (No. 9105.) |
Citation | 5 S.W.2d 793 |
Parties | WESSENDORFF et al. v. AYLOR et al. |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Fort Bend County; M. S. Munson, Judge.
Action by A. W. Aylor and others against T. B. Wessendorff, administrator, and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal. Affirmed.
Peareson & Peareson, of Richmond, for appellants.
C. H. Chernosky and Ward & Ward, all of Houston, for appellees.
The sole question this appeal involves is whether or not this affidavit, from which only the description of the land referred to is omitted, is in compliance with R. S. (1911) art. 3439:
This deed of trust was executed for the purpose of securing payment of the above-described note, together with all interest and attorneys' fees therein mentioned, bearing date May 1, 1919, duly recorded in volume 1, pages 120-123, in the Deed of Trust Records of Fort Bend county, Tex., to which deed of trust and the record thereof reference is hereby made for description of said land and premises and for all other purposes, and a copy of which deed of trust and note is made a part hereof, marked Exhibits A and B, respectively, hereto attached.
The trial court held it sufficient; appellants contend it is not, in that it contains, of the terms "all legal offsets, payments, and credits" prescribed by the statute, only the words "all legal offsets," and lacks both the words "payments" and "credits," as well as the equivalent of either or both. The appellees, on the other hand, insist that the holding below was correct, in that the word "offsets" in the proof of such a claim includes the words "payments and credits," and that it, at least when taken along with the other portions of the affidavit describing the claim as a note, etc., constituted sufficient proof under the statute.
While the matter is not free from doubt, this court concludes to affirm the judgment and uphold the sufficiency of the affidavit upon the consideration so last advanced by the appellees, which is more fully stated in their brief in this way:
"Where the claim is a written instrument, a promissory note, evidencing the amount of the debt, according to the face of which the principal was not yet due, except as declared due for nonpayment of certain semiannual interest installments as specified in the affidavit and with payments and credits indorsed on the note showing certain payments of interest to have been made, and the affidavit states that no other interest payments were made, and states that the claim is just and that all offsets have been allowed, and that such note is valid and subsisting and in full force and effect, the claim is sufficiently proved."
Both sides agree, as indeed the authorities they each cite affirm, that a literal conformity to the terms of the statute is not necessary, but that a substantial compliance with it is sufficient. Agreeably to...
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