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COUCH v. SCHLEY

No. 3424.

297 S.W.2d 228 (1956)

A. M. COUCH, Appellant, v. Jack A. SCHLEY, Sr., Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied January 3, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. H. Wren, Hamilton, for appellant.

H. J. Cureton, Jr., Meridian, Abney, Hammett & Lynch, Lampasas, H. W. Allen, Hamilton, for appellee.

HALE, Justice.

Appellant, A. M. Couch, instituted this suit on February 24, 1956, against appellee, Jack A. Schley, Sr., for "title and ownership" of $1,000 in currency which he found buried in the ground on January 7, 1952, while working on premises belonging to appellee. In answer to the suit, appellee interposed a plea of res judicata based upon a prior judgment rendered by the trial court and affirmed by the Supreme Court, and moved for summary judgment. The trial...

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