Case Name: WOODARD et al. v. LONG
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1933-04-01
Citations: 63 S.W.2d 567
Docket Number: No. 12810
Parties: WOODARD et al. v. LONG.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 63
Pages: 567–567

Head Matter:
WOODARD et al. v. LONG.
No. 12810.
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Fort Worth.
April 1, 1983.
Rehearing Denied May 6, 1933.
T. R. Boone and E. T. Duff, both of Wichita Falls, for appellants.
John Davenport, of Wichita Falls, for ap-pellee.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Justice.'
Appellee Long sued appellants Woodard, as principal, and Reece S. Allen and John O'Neil, as endorsers, on a note. The petition alleged the rate of interest without in connection therewith alleging when interest began. The prayer prayed for interest from the date of the note. We believe the special exception thereto directed for failure to directly allege the date interest began was good and should have been sustained, though if that were the only error in the record we would hesitate to declare it reversible.
The petition nowhere alleged any facts showing that the liability of the endorsers had been fixed as prescribed by articles 5937 and 5938, Rev. St. 1925. Against this petition a general demurrer by endorsers is good, and being urged in this case should have been sustained according to the following authorities: First Nat. Bank v. Lee County Cotton Oil Co. (Tex. Com. App.) 274 S. W. 127; Ward-law v. Farmers' & Merchants' Bank Co. (Tex. Com. App.) 34 S.W.(2d) 419; First State Bank v. Ovalo Warehouse Ass'n (Tex. Civ. App.) 270 S. W. 773; Howth v. J. I. Case Threshing Mach. Co. (Tex. Civ. App.) 2.80 S. W. 238. Wc need not discuss the matter further.
The cause is reversed and remanded to the trial court.