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114 S.W.2d 533

Cheney v. Coffey

Texas Commission of Appeals

Decided March 23, 1938

Texas Commission of Appeals · decided 1938-03-23

Relies on Hooks v. Bridgewater

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Decided 1938-03-23

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Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1957

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MARTIN, Commissioner.

¶1In making general quotations, as in our original opinion, we do not commit the court upon questions not presented in the record before us. Obviously, this court in the present case has not before it the naked question of the validity of an oral contract to adopt, and does not decide that question.

¶2We decline to be led into a further discussion of the contract pleaded and relied on for recovery in this case. The question is sufficiently discussed and point*534edly decided in Hooks v. Bridgewater, 111 Tex. 122, 229 S.W. 1114, IS A.L.R. 216, and unless we are prepared to overrule that case, a discussion would be useless.

¶3Motion overruled.

¶4Opinion adopted by the Supreme Court.

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