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53 Tex. 423

Rogers v. McLaren

Texas Supreme Court

Decided June 11, 1880

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1880-06-11

Tried below before the Hon. D. M. Prendergast. M. E. McLaren, defendant in error, brought suit in the district court for Bosque county against W. E. Rogers, Christian Cook, George Minicks, J. M. Hancock and Hawk.

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Decided 1880-06-11

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Bonner, Associate Justice.

¶1In this case there is no statement of facts, and every reasonable presumption should be indulged in favor of the judgment below.

¶2The only question in the case is that of the sufficiency of the description of the land upon which the vendor’s lien was enforced.

¶3Although there is some confusion as to description arising from the recitals in the note set out in the petition, and which appear evidently to have been inadvertently made, yet this is obviated by a subsequent allegation, in which for better description reference is made to the deed to the land, executed by the vendor, Horton, to the vendee and defendant below, W. E. Rogers.

¶4Under recent decisions of this court this description is sufficiently certain. Norris v. Hunt, 51 Tex., 609; Steinbeck v. Stone, ante, p. 382.

¶5The fact that the judgment further describes this deed than as averred in the pleadings, by reference to the particular registry book and page where recorded, is not a variance from the pleadings, but an additional description which, in the absence of a statement of facts, we must presume was sustained by the evidence.

¶6Affirmed.

¶7[Opinion delivered June 11, 1880.]

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