Case ID: willson_2/html/0329-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

C. E. Gilbert et al. v. H. A. Hancock.
    (No. 3102.)
    Appeal from Taylor County.
   Opinion by

Willson, J.

§ 3 7 9. Trustees; judgment against, in suit for debt of cestui que trust. Appellee sued appellants as trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Abilene, for labor done in building a church. He recovered a judgment for his debt. Appellants claim that the judgment is against them personally. Held, that appellants were sued in their fiduciary canacity only, and that judgment should he against them only in that capacity, with execution against the cestui que trust, wherefore the judgment was reformed and rendered accordingly.

October 25, 1884.

Reformed and rendered.