Court Opinion

ID: 9829842
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:40:50.042921+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:00:17.407299
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On Motion for Rehearing.
A point not expressly raised in the brief is presented in appellee’s motion for rehearing, and is urged as a reason requiring the af-firmance of the judgment. It is now claimed that the trial court properly sustained the general demurrer, because the petition did not allege elements of damage required by the rule announced in George v. Hess, 100 Tex. 44, 93 S. W. 107, 8 L. R. A. (N. S.) 804, 123 Am. St. Rep. 772, 15 Ann. Cas. 456, Cox v. Barton, 212 S. W. 652, and other cases along this line. Specifically, it is insisted that there is no allegation in the petition which can be construed to mean that the property received by appellant was of less value than the property he conveyed to ap-pellee, and that therefore no cause of action was stated.
 While the judgment sustaining the general demurrer states other reasons, we recognize that, if the ruling of the trial judge was correct, it is immaterial that he stated untenable reasons for his conclusion. In our original opinion we recognized the rule established in the cases referred to, and, upon careful consideration of the question, we conclude that appellant’s petition fairly meets such rule, and that the contention of appellee is without merit.
The petition alleges that the land of appellant involved in the exchange was at the time and has been at all times of the value of $30 per acre, and the value of appellee’s land $35 per acre. Then follows the averment that appellant parted with considerations aggregating nearly $12,000.
Applying the standard of value per acre to the quantity of land actually received by appellant, it is shown that such value was nearly $2,000 less than appellee received in the exchange. Therefore we conclude that the petition does allege a cause of action, under the rule announced in the above cases, and that the motion of appellee should be overruled.
Motion overruled.