Court Opinion

ID: 9831622
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:15:12.130365+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:36.552907
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
 The appellant’s motion is based upon the mistaken theory that the evidence in the case shows an executed contract of sale. The record does not sustain this position. At most, it was an agreement to sell, based upon several conditions. Defendant’s attorney, as found by the jury, must be satisfied as to the legal phases of the matter and the creditors of appellant, some of whose debts the defendant was to assume as part of the consideration, had to be dealt with, and terms of payment of other claims must be agreed upon. The question of when a sale of chattels is completed and when title passes to the purchaser is, in its final analysis, one of, intention to be gathered from the facts and circumstances of each particular case. *155Woods v. Half, 44 Tex. 633; Shearman v. Poe (Tex. Civ. App.) 9 S.W.(2d) 762; Dawson v. Malone (Tex. Civ. App.) 283 S. W. 634. The jury’s finding, which is supported by sufficient evidence, that the agreement to sell should not be closed until defendant’s attorney was satisfied, was a condition precedent to a completed sale. The record shows that there were outstanding debts, claims, and suits in which the property was involved, and the agreement to sell and purchase was made subject to the settlement of some of these, and, as to others, the consent of creditors had to be obtained before the sale could be closed. The defendant denied that there had been any delivery for the purpose of effecting a sale and with the inutual intention of passing title to the property. This issue was not submitted to the jury.
In the light of these facts, it cannot be reasonably contended that the sale was executed, even if it is admitted that it was executory. It is not contended that the conditions had been complied with, and therefore the case has been properly disposed of.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.