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Goodwin v. Abilene State Bank

Supreme Court of Texas
Oct 14, 1926
287 S.W. 1111 (Tex. 1926)

Opinion

No. 4608.

Decided October 14, 1926.

Certified Question — Submitting Entire Case.

Certified questions which send up the entire case to the Supreme Court for its opinion are unwarranted, and should be dismissed. Kelley-Goodfellow Shoe Co. v. Liberty Ins. Co., 87 Tex. 112, followed. (P. 135).

Questions certified from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eleventh District, in an appeal from Taylor County.

The Supreme Court, having referred the questions to the Commission of Appeals, Section A, for its opinion, here dismiss the certificate as thereby recommended.

Roy L. Duke, B. H. Shepard, and Stinson, Coombes Brooks, for appellant.

Wagstaff, Harwell Wagstaff, for appellee.


Eight questions have been certified herein by the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eleventh District. The statement of the case, as contained in the certificate, embraces the substance of the pleadings of the parties and a lengthy and detailed statement of the facts in evidence. The questions certified relate to the sufficiency of the pleadings and the evidence to raise issues of fraudulent representations and fraudulent concealment upon which the appellants rely to defeat a recovery by the appellee; to the sufficiency of the pleading and proof to estop the appellants from relying on such fraud; to questions of procedure and practice. In short it appears from the certificate that the entire case has been sent up to the Supreme Court for opinion as to how it should be decided. The aspects of the certificate here are of the same general nature as those which met the condemnation of the Supreme Court in the case of Kelley-Goodfellow Shoe Co. v. Liberty Insurance Co., 87 Tex. 112.

We therefore recommend that the certificate be dismissed, and this opinion be certified to the Court of Civil Appeals that it may decide the cause in due course of business.

The opinion of the Commission of Appeals recommending a dismissal of the certified questions is adopted and certificate dismissed.

C. M. Cureton, Chief Justice.


Summaries of

Goodwin v. Abilene State Bank

Supreme Court of Texas
Oct 14, 1926
287 S.W. 1111 (Tex. 1926)
Case details for

Goodwin v. Abilene State Bank

Case Details

Full title:W. C. GOODWIN v. ABILENE STATE BANK

Court:Supreme Court of Texas

Date published: Oct 14, 1926

Citations

287 S.W. 1111 (Tex. 1926)
287 S.W. 1111

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