Ball, Hutchings & Co. v. Presidio County
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from Presidio County. Justice Hell, of said court, not sitting. Suit by Ball, Hutchings & Co. against Presidio County on certain -coupons for interest upon county bonds delivered to Britton & Long. The trial court, without a jury, gave judgment for the county. The judgment was reversed and judgment rendered by Court of Civil Appeals for the plaintiffs.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from Presidio County. Justice Hell, of said court, not sitting. Suit by Ball, Hutchings & Co. against Presidio County on certain -coupons for interest upon county bonds delivered to Britton & Long. The trial court, without a jury, gave judgment for the county. The judgment was reversed and judgment rendered by Court of Civil Appeals for the plaintiffs. The defendant’s application for writ of error complained of error by the Court of Appeals, “In not holding, with tbe court below, that appellants were bound to know, as matter of…
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
—On the 9th day of February, 1886, the Commissioners Court of Presidio County, Texas, entered an order embodying the following: (1) The bid of Britton to construct a court house at Marfa, Presidio County, Texas, for $60,000, to be paid in courthouse and jail bonds, and that of Anderson, to construct a jail at same place for $26,000, to be paid in same kind of bonds, were accepted; (2) Britton and Anderson were respectively required, within ten days from February 9, 1886, the date of said order, to enter into contracts to construct same; (3) work to begin in twenty…
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