Gates v. Hooper

DENMAN, Associate Justice.

We adopt the statement of the case-made hy the Court of Civil Appeals, as follows:

“This suit was instituted by appellant against appellee on the 2nd day of May, A. D., 1896. The allegations in original petition are as follows: That on the 14th of June, 1895, defendant (appellee) being then a merchant and doing business as such merchant in the town of Bates-ville, in said county (Zavalla), entered into an agreement, partly verbal and partly in writing, with plaintiff (appellant), then and there also a merchant and doing business in said town as such' merchant, by…