Case ID: white-w_1/html/0031-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

E. P. Lyle v. M. C. Harris.
    (No. 676, Op. Book No. 3, p. 422.)
    Appeal from Dallas County.
    June 9, 1880.
   Opinion by

White, P. J.

§71. General demurrer; legal effect of . The legal effect of a general demurrer is to admit the facts pleaded to be true, but to deny that they constitute a cause of action or ground of defense. [Zacharie v. Bryan, 2 Tex. 274.] And the only question which will be considered under it is whether any cause of action or ground of defense is disclosed in the pleading demurred to. [Warner v. Bailey, 7 Tex. 517.] If sufficient be stated in the pleading demurred to, to enable the court to see that a good cause of action or ground of defense exists, however defectively stated, a general demurrer will not be sustained. [Williams v. Warnell, 28 Tex. 611; Edgar v. Galveston, 46 Tex. 421.]

Eeversed and remanded.