Case ID: sw2d_114/html/0533-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MARTIN, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHENEY et al. v. COFFEY et al.
    Motion No. 13378; No. 1701-6955.
    Commission of Appeals of Texas, Section B.
    March 23, 1938.
    H. S. Garrett, of Fort Worth, for plaintiffs in error.
    Cantey, Hanger & McMahon and Gillis A. Johnson, all of Fort Worth, for defendants in error.
   MARTIN, Commissioner.

In making general quotations, as in our original opinion, we do not commit the court upon questions not presented in the record before us. Obviously, this court in the present case has not before it the naked question of the validity of an oral contract to adopt, and does not decide that question.

We decline to be led into a further discussion of the contract pleaded and relied on for recovery in this case. The question is sufficiently discussed and pointedly decided in Hooks v. Bridgewater, 111 Tex. 122, 229 S.W. 1114, IS A.L.R. 216, and unless we are prepared to overrule that case, a discussion would be useless.

Motion overruled.

Opinion adopted by the Supreme Court.