Brown v. Chenoworth
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. Florence Chenoworth, joined by her husband, John Chenoworth, brought suit to the April Term, 1877, of the District Court of Travis county, against J. 8.' Able, B. Brown, and E. A. Brown, on a promissory note of $11,000. This note, she charged in her petition, had been executed and delivered by B. Brown and E. A. Brown to said J. S. Able for the purchase-money of three leagues and eleven labors of land in Kaufman…
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Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. Florence Chenoworth, joined by her husband, John Chenoworth, brought suit to the April Term, 1877, of the District Court of Travis county, against J. 8.' Able, B. Brown, and E. A. Brown, on a promissory note of $11,000. This note, she charged in her petition, had been executed and delivered by B. Brown and E. A. Brown to said J. S. Able for the purchase-money of three leagues and eleven labors of land in Kaufman county, Texas; that at the time of the execution of the note a deed was given by Able to B. Brown and E. A. Brown for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The first assignment of error is as follows: The court erred in refusing to give a jury in this case on the demand of the defendants Ben Brown and *475Earl A. Brown, which demand was made at the Spring Term of the District Court of Travis county, 1878, and said refusal of the court was excepted to at the time it occurred.
The bill of exceptions shows that at the commencement of the term of the court the judge set the jury trial docket in civil cases for the fourth week, and proceeded to work on the non-jury docket. During the first week, and before this cause was reached…
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