Elliott v. Elliott

2 Citing cases

  1. Golden Villa Home v. Smith

    674 S.W.2d 343 (Tex. App. 1984)   Cited 47 times
    Holding nursing home liable for failing to keep patient from wandering onto the highway

    Admission of such testimony, if error, was harmless error, since the record shows a doctor provided expert testimony using similar terminology. See Elliott v. Elliott, 120 S.W.2d 631, 636-637 (Tex.Civ.App. — Fort Worth, 1938, writ dism'd). Golden Villa itself established the doctor's credentials as an expert medical witness in its direct examination of him.

  2. Luker v. Luker

    226 S.W.2d 482 (Tex. Civ. App. 1950)   Cited 6 times

    A life estate and a reversionary estate in a tract of land are distinct and separate estates and may be owned in severalty. Brito v. Slack, Tex.Civ.App., 25 S.W.2d 881; 31 C.J.S., Estates, § 34 p. 43; 28 Tex.Jur. page 52; Elliott v. Elliott, Tex.Civ.App., 120 S.W.2d 631; Hensley v. Conway, Tex.Civ.App., 29 S.W.2d 416. The ownership of an interest in one such estate does not entitle one to participate in the other by partition as no higher estate can be acquired by partition.