Swann v. G. Muschke & Co.

Appellees brought suit to recover from appellant, in the District Court of Harris county, two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fourteen cents, the balance due on an account for lumber.

The defendant’s answer set up two receipts from plaintiff, one signed in June, 1873, for four hundred dollars. The other receipt being for two hundred and ninety-four dollars.

The plaintiffs amended their pleadings, and averred that a credit had been given defendant, on their account, for two hun died dollars, paid by defendant in April, 1873, and that the receipt signed by them for four hundred dollars, in…