Greenwood v. Pierce
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Caldwell.' Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. Pierce brought this suit against Greenwood the 17th day of ■ August, 1875, on the following note: “ $177.50. Luling, Texas, July '8, 1874. “ Twelve months after date, for value received, I promise to pay Thomas W. Pierce, of Boston, Mass., or order, one hundred and seventy-seven and fifty one-hundredth dollars in gold, with ten per cent, interest until paid. > “ This note is given for the balance of purchase…
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Error from Caldwell.' Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. Pierce brought this suit against Greenwood the 17th day of ■ August, 1875, on the following note: “ $177.50. Luling, Texas, July '8, 1874. “ Twelve months after date, for value received, I promise to pay Thomas W. Pierce, of Boston, Mass., or order, one hundred and seventy-seven and fifty one-hundredth dollars in gold, with ten per cent, interest until paid. > “ This note is given for the balance of purchase money due on lot number one, in block number forty-eight, in the town of Luling, on the line of the G. H. & S. A. Pailway,…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.
But one question is presented by the record for determination, and that is, did the court err in sustaining the exceptions to the original and amended answer 1
The proposition that the representations of the agent that the road would be constructed and the depots erected as designated upon the map could not be fraudulent because these representations related to matters in the future, is not correct under the facts of this case.
Justice Wheeler, in discussing that question in Henderson v. Bail-road Company, 17 Tex., 580, used the following language: “But it is not necessary,…
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