Burleson v. Goodman & Stroud
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Caldwell. Tried below before the Hon. J. J. Thornton. The appellant was defendant in the court below to a suit brought by the appellees on an open account. By an amended petition it was alleged that Goodman was the sole owner of the accounts sued on. There was judgment below against appellant for $ff> 25.
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
We can find no valid reason for interfering with the verdict of the jury and the judgment of the court in this case. There seems to be three grounds chiefly relied upon by the counsel for the appellant in the assignment of errors for the reversal of the judgment:
1. That the court erred in admitting as testimony the book account of the plaintiff, a blacksmith, who, without a clerk, made his own entries in the regular routine of his business.
2. That the record of a suit between the plaintiff and Ms former partner, in the name of "which firm a part of the ; account sued on in this case was…
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