Court Opinion

ID: 9638768
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:53:17.885416+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:09.401728
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing
Appellant says that we erred in affirming the trial court’s judgment because there is no affirmative evidence in the record to overcome the statutory presumption that the bank account in question was appellant’s separate property.
Appellee in his affidavit controverting the Garnishee Bank’s first answer alleged: “ * * * that the said Sue Mil-ligan is the wife of H. T. Ryals and that the money was placed in the account of Sue Milligan and/or H. T. Ryals in order to prevent the creditors from knowing that said funds belonged to H. T. Ryals, * Thus the issue of fraudulent concealment was brought into the case. Of course the burden was on appellee to support his allegation of fraud by a preponderance of the evidence. If he succeeded in doing so, we think he entirely satisfied the requirements of the law with reference to rebutting .the statutory presumption relied on by • appellant.
Obviously the trial court found against appellant on the issue of fraud; and if there is sufficient testimony in the record to support such finding we are bound by it.
We think there is sufficient evidence to support the court’s finding. Fraud may be proved by circumstances. There are many Texas cases so holding. They are named in the annotations to 20 Tex.Jur. 158-160, sec. 108, so we shall not list them here.:
The facts which constitute the circumstances are well supported in this case by affirmative evidence. • They are admitted by appellant and her husband and are un-contradicted. Admission of a fact is af*552firmative evidence and may be made in such language and under such circumstances as to make it the most satisfactory kind of proof. Litman v. Peper, 214 Minn. 127, 7 N.W.2d 334.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.