Bray v. Bray

1 S.W.2d 525

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: December 22, 1927
• Docket: No. 9106.
• Status: Published

Opinion

GRAVES, J.

In this cause the trial court, among other dispositions made, awarded the plaintiff below, defendant in error here, upon an allegation of hers that the property was the community property of herself and husband, the defendant below and plaintiff in» error here, title and possession of lots 11 to 14 inclusive, in block 7, Houston Harbor addition, Harris county, Tex., on a stated finding in the judgment that it was her separate and individual property.

Upon the appeal the plaintiff in error challenges this award on the ground that there was no pleading to support it, in that the defendant in error alleged the Harbor addition lots to be the community property between them.

This contention must’be sustained, since the judgment must conform to the pleadings, and a finding made without supporting pleading will not sustain a judgment. Revised Statutes 1911, art. 1994; Graves v. Griffin (Tex. Com. App.) 228 S. W. 913; Childress v. Bank (Tex. Civ. App.) 264 S. W. 352; Scott v. Lott (Tex. Civ. App.) 247 S. W. 685; Burke v. Knodell (Tex. Civ. App.) 241 S. W. 798; Osage Oil Co. v. Caulk (Tex. Civ. App.) 243 S. W. 551; Dickson v. Kilgore State Bank (Tex. Civ. App.) 244 S. W. 392.

In so far as it decrees the property described to the wife as her separate estate, the judgment will be reversed, and the cause remanded.

This is the only respect in which the judgment has been attacked upon appeal; hence in other respects the trial court’s action remains undisturbed..

Reversed and remanded.