Morris v. Ranney
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. J. J. Thornton. The opinion of the court sufficiently indicates the material facts of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This is an action on a promissory note made for the hire of slaves after the proclamation of emancipation.
Were this case presented to the court for the first time, we should regard it as one surrounded with many difficulties. The question was re-argued to the court at the last term, with the same consummate ability which characterized the dissenting opinion of his Honor, Judge Hamilton, in the emancipation cases reported in 31 Texas, 504 et seq.
It may scarcely appear consistent in the writer of this opinion, if he should criticise the opinion of the majority of. the court in Hall v. Keese, 31…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hall v. KeeseTexas Supreme Court · 1868