Corbett v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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1. ““This is a suit for necessaries furnished the appellant’s wife. “The appellant is E. B. Corbett, the defendant in the trial court. The appellee is Mrs. A. W. Crosby, the plaintiff in the trial court, joined by her husband. The necessaries were furnished by appellee in September, October, and December, 1935, and in May, 1936. Subsequently, in October, 1936, Mrs. Corbett sued for and was granted a divorce from appellant, E. B. Corbett. Appellee filed this suit in August, 1937. “The trial was before the County Court at Law of Harris County, Texas, without a jury, and judgment was rendered for plaintiffs in the sum of $287.95, with six per cent interest from the date of the conclusion of the trial. It is from this judgment that the defendant, E. B. Cor-bett, appealed. The plaintiffs were denied recovery for a $100.00 portion of their total claim, from which denial no appeal is taken.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Corbett v. Crosby