Navarro v. Kingsbury

SMITH, Justice. Adela Rodriguez Navarro and F. H. Kings-bury will be designated plaintiff and defendant, respectively, as in the trial court. The action was brought by plaintiff to recover title and possession of certain real property situated in Bexar county. The trial court overruled defendant’s general demurrer to plaintiff’s petition, but at the conclusion of the trial withdrew the case from the jury and rendered judgment denying any. recovery [628] to plaintiff, who has appealed. There is no statement of facts with the record. It appears from the imperfect and unsatisfactory record and presentation that plaintiff borrowed money from defendant with which to take up outstanding debts and liens against the property involved, giving defendant a deed of trust upon the property to secure her debt. Plaintiff defaulted in the payment, and defendant had the property sold under the terms of the deed of trust, and bought it in at the sale. Plaintiff sued to recover the property, but made no offer of restitution of the money obtained from defendant thereon. It appears from a great number of bills of exception, most of which are exact duplicates in effect, if not in form, that plaintiff offered to prove by witnesses that, when she learned that the trustee was advertising the property for sale, she requested defendant and he agreed to postpone the sale and allow her time to complete a deal whereby she planned to raise money and pay off the debt; that the sale proceeded, nevertheless, notwithstanding plaintiff had been “lulled to sleep” by defendant’s promise of postponement and was thereby prevented from protecting her rights at the sale. But it further appeared from the proffered and rejected testimony that the person from whom plaintiff expected to obtain the money with which to •retrieve the property finally withdrew his offer of support. It is not apparent, in t'he absence of a statement of facts, that the proffered evidence, had it been admitted, was sufficient to entitle plaintiff to recover, or to overcome the testimony actually adduced. The presumption is in favor of the right action of the trial judge, and, in the absence of a statement of facts, this court cannot say he erred in rendering the judgment appealed from. The judgment is affirmed.