Riggs v. Horde
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Havarro. The case was tried before Hon. 3ST. W. Battle, one of the district judges. Lavinia A. Edwards was born on the 14th day of March, A. D. 1837. According to an advertisement of the defendants, in the Prairie Blade, a newspaper published in the good town df Corsicana, she must have been liberally educated, for these gentlemen, on the 16th day of February, 1856, held her out to the world as “a lady eminently qualified for the high and important trust confided…
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Appeal from Havarro. The case was tried before Hon. 3ST. W. Battle, one of the district judges. Lavinia A. Edwards was born on the 14th day of March, A. D. 1837. According to an advertisement of the defendants, in the Prairie Blade, a newspaper published in the good town df Corsicana, she must have been liberally educated, for these gentlemen, on the 16th day of February, 1856, held her out to the world as “a lady eminently qualified for the high and important trust confided to her keeping,” and the teaching of “ spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, rhetoric,…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
—We think the court held rightly, that the action was maintainable, though the plaintiff" had not fully performed her undertaking, according to the terms of the contract. Although there is great diversity of decisions and opinions on the question, we think the better opinion and the course of decisions of this court support the ruling of the court below upon that point. The subject was very ably examined by Chief Justice Parker, in the case of Bolton v. Turner, 6 N. H., 497, and much of the difficulty caused by the disagreement and want of. harmony among the cases was removed by his…
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