Coles v. Kelsey
Texas Supreme Court
All the important facts adjudicated in this cause being stated in the opinion of the court and the dissenting opinion, the reporters deem it unnecessary to give a farther statement of them here.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lipscomb
The appellee filed his petition against the appellant in the district court of Washington county on the 11th day of May, *5431846, in tbe following words, i. e.: “To the honorable the judge of the third judicial district: The petition of Charles Kelsey to your honor showeth that John P. Coles, of the county aforesaid, on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1840, executed his certain promissory note in the words and figures as follows, to wit:
‘Washington, 4th March, 1840. Two years after date I promise to pay Charles Kelsey, Esq., or order, fifteen hundred dollars, for value received.
(Signed) ‘JohN P.…
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