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28 Tex. 97

Dodd & Co. v. Arnold

Texas Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1866

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1866-12-15

The case was tried before Hon. H. W. Battle, one of the district judges. In October, 1858, John Dodd and B. V. Shackleford, keepers of a livery stable in Hempstead, under their partnership name of Dodd & Co., hired a buggy, mule, and harness to two strangers, who called themselves Merchant and brother, or Wilson and brother, for the purpose of conveying them to Belton.

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Decided 1866-12-15

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Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1924

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Donley, J.

¶1—The first point in the charge is hypothetically submitted to the jury, and is erroneous. It is not alleged in any pleading in the cause that appellant intended that the propei’ty in the mule and buggy should pass to Mez’*101chant and brother in any event, nor is there any evidence to that point in the record. (Hopton v. Dean, 4 Tex., 455; McGreal v. Wilson, 9 Tex., 428; Lee v. Hamilton, 12 Tex., 418; Earle v. Thomas, 14 Tex., 592; Andrews v. Southwick, 20 Tex., 118.) The remainder of the charge, it is conceived, is against law, and cannot he sustained.

¶2The good faith of the defendant cannot invest him with the title to the property if his vendor had no title. The owner of property cannot he deprived of it except by his consent.

¶3“ The universal and fundamental principle of our law is, that no man can he divested of his property without his own consent, and consequently that even the honest purchaser under a defective title cannot hold against the true proprietor.” (Salters v. Everett, 20 Wend., 275; 2 Kent Com., 324; Wheelright v. Defoyster, 1 Johns., 480; Dawes v. Baldwin, 8 Mass., 521.)

¶4The judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause

¶5Remanded.

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