A. J. Ward & Co. v. Bledsoe & Clarkson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Falls. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Evans. Ward & Co., the appellants, sued Bledsoe & Clarkson, the appellees, who were a mercantile firm of Falls county, on an alleged indebtedness of $293é, balance due on account.
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Appeal from Falls. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Evans. Ward & Co., the appellants, sued Bledsoe & Clarkson, the appellees, who were a mercantile firm of Falls county, on an alleged indebtedness of $293é, balance due on account. The defendants pleaded in reconvention, and the jury returned a verdict in their favor for $1972 50. There is a large mass of evidence in the record, but, in view of the grounds taken in the opinion of this court, there seems to be no object in stating the facts minutely. The plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial being overruled, they appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
This action was brought by the appellants upon an account current, to which a plea in reconvention was interposed by the appellees, alleging that they had consigned a large amount of cotton to the appellants, as their factors and agents in Galveston, to put in market to sell, and to make them due returns of sales; that the cotton was received by their factors, or commission merchants, and sold; and that the proceeds were greatly in excess of any just demands which the appellants held against them; but that they had exhibited false and fraudulent accounts of sales, by which the apparent…
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