Bernardoni v. Holman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Appellants’ one proposition directly material to that issue is stated by them, as follows: ‘When the County Judge signed his bond, and the sureties joined therein, their liability became contractual toward all wards under the jurisdiction of the Probate Court. Therefore, this is a suit to collect money on an instrument in writing, and appellants’ cause of action comes under the Texas four years’ statute of limitation.’ >¡í SjC >|i “Upon consideration of the single question of law thus presented, aided by able briefs and oral arguments for both sides, this court concludes that appellants are mistaken in their view; that their relied-upon authorities do not sustain it, but that, on the contrary, the precise point raised has already been foreclosed against them by an unbroken line of holdings in Texas to the direct purport that, upon facts not in legal effect different from those appellants so here declared upon, the two-year and not the four-year statute applies, such authorities being these; 43 American Jurisprudence, Sec. 444, R.C. S. of Texas 1925, Art. 5526, Sub. 4; Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. State, Tex.Civ.App., 86 S.W.2d 826 ; Bexar County v. Maverick, Tex.Civ.App., 159 S.W.2d 140 ; Cowart v. Russell, 135 Tex. 562 , 144 S.W.2d 249 ; Hatcher v. State, 125 Tex. 84 , 81 S.W.2d 499, 98 .. A.L.R. 1213; Genzer v. Fillip, Tex.Civ. App., 134 S.W.2d 730 , writ of error dismissed; McEwin v. Luker, Tex.Civ. App., 81 S.W.2d 137 ; Phillips v. Hail, Tex.Civ.App., 118 S.W. 19”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Port Arthur v. Tillman