Dimmitt v. Robbins
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before Hon. A. H. Graham, Special District Judge. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Hobby, Judge.
We have been unable to find in our researches among' the. great multitude of reported civil cases any case which in its facts is similar to this. The suit was brought by the appellee, plaintiff below, on the 9th of August, 1877, against J. J. Dimmitt to recover 82500, alleged to have been loaned by appellee to Dimmitt. Dimmitt denied the indebtedness, and alleged that if he ever agreed or promised to pay said sum he was in duress at the time and held in unlawful custody and in great fear of serious bodily injury and of losing his life by two men to him unknown, who armed with…
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