Frazier v. Woodward, Squires & Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Coryell. Tried below before the Hon. T. L. Nugent. On the 23d day of January, 1882, Woodward, Squires & Co. (a firm composed of W. B. Woodward, W. M. Squires and B. F. Friend, defendants in error) filed their petition in the district court of Coryell county against John Frazier and S. O. Frazier, plaintiffs in error, on a certain promissory note bearing date December 30r 1881, and due one day after its date, and payable to Woodward, Squires & Co., for the sum of…
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Error from Coryell. Tried below before the Hon. T. L. Nugent. On the 23d day of January, 1882, Woodward, Squires & Co. (a firm composed of W. B. Woodward, W. M. Squires and B. F. Friend, defendants in error) filed their petition in the district court of Coryell county against John Frazier and S. O. Frazier, plaintiffs in error, on a certain promissory note bearing date December 30r 1881, and due one day after its date, and payable to Woodward, Squires & Co., for the sum of $390.26. The original note was attached to the petition as an exhibit, which they alleged to be due and unpaid. They…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.—
This suit was based upon a note for $390.26,, dated December 30,1881, and bearing interest from date at the rate of eight per cent, per annum. The plaintiffs in error were duly cited, but filed no answer; and without any amendment of the petition a judgment was rendered against plaintiffs in error, June 12, 1882, for the sum of $792.54. It -was therein recited: “ This-day came the plaintiffs by attorney and announced ready for trial,. *451when the following agreed judgment was rendered,” etc. There is a paper improperly copied into the record, neither signed by any person nor…
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