Court Opinion

ID: 9834138
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:19:44.141712+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:11.956763
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
At the request of appellees, we make the following additional findings of fact, to wit:
1. Appellant, N. O. Ellison, Jr., announced in the Commercial Recorder puR-lished in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, on June 24, 1946, and in the San Antonio Evening News on June 22, 1946, that he would not be responsible for any *420past or future debts of C. E. (Guy) Linton, the announcement being over his signature.
2. Appellant, N. O. Ellison, Jr., testified and claimed that the $3,000 put into Guy’s Dinner Club was money belonging to his children; that it was put into the enterprise without benefit of an order of the Probate Court in the matter of the estate of his children, who were minors; that Probate orders were introduced showing that on previous occasions said N. O. Ellison, Jr., as Guardian, had obtained orders of the court on particular actions in 'behalf of the estate.
3. Appellant, N. O. Ellison, Jr., neither received nor required a note, either payable to himself individually or as Guardian of his children, nor a written contract with reference to repayment of the $3,000 put into Guy’s Dinner Club.
4. The .$3,000 put into Guy’s Dinner Club by N. O. Ellison, Jr., was taken out 6f a bank box in the National Bank of Commerce of San Antonio, Texas, registered in the name of N. O. Ellison, Jr., personally.
5. Appellant, N. O. Ellison, Jr., made suggestions as to the improvements while being made and referred to the club as “our club” prior to its being opened up for business. .
6. Appellant did not object to the charge on circumstantial evidence in the trial court on the specific ground that “circumstantial evidence” was erroneously defined.
We have carefully considered appellees’ motion for a rehearing and same is overruled.