Robinson v. Varnell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. Fielding Jones. Suit commenced April 16th, 1852, by appellee against appellant, on the following contract in writing : St. Joseph’s Island, Jan’y 27th, 1848. On the first day of January next, I promise to pay W._ M. Varnell, or order, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for value received of him in the hire of a negro boy, named Bill, for the present year 1848, which I am to furnish with two suits of clothes, and return to him…
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Appeal from Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. Fielding Jones. Suit commenced April 16th, 1852, by appellee against appellant, on the following contract in writing : St. Joseph’s Island, Jan’y 27th, 1848. On the first day of January next, I promise to pay W._ M. Varnell, or order, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for value received of him in the hire of a negro boy, named Bill, for the present year 1848, which I am to furnish with two suits of clothes, and return to him on the first day of January, 1849. The petition alleged that the slave had never been returned, nor the hire paid, and…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The record presents but two instructions given at the instance of the plaintiff. The brief of counsel for the appellant mentions other instructions, as having been given ; and as the counsel have appeared only by brief, it is not improbable that the instructions of which they complain, were given, and inadvertently omitted in making up the transcript, and that the omission has escaped the notice of counsel. However, as there is no suggestion of a diminution of the record; we must take it that it is complete, for all the purposes of this appeal; whatever cause we may have, outside of the…
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