Curtis & Co. Manufacturing Co. v. Douglass & Glass

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

This action originated in a Justice Court, and the statement of the case by counsel for appellant is as follows:

*169Douglass & Glass were indebted to appellant, Curtis & Co. Manufacturing Company, on a note for $166.50, with interest at 8 per cent from 7th of July, 1888.. On the-- day of December, 1888, appellees forwarded by mail to appellant in St. Louis, Missouri, a check for $171.34, drawn by Goudelock & Co., a firm in Mount Vernon, Texas, composed of S. D. Goudelock, on the Mount Vernon Bank, of Mount Vernon, Texas, in favor of appellant, to cover the amount then due…