Hipp v. Bissell
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Guadaloupe County. This was a suit brought by the appellant to foreclose a mortgage, given by the appellee, to secure the payment of three hundred dollars. At the spring term, 1847, the defendant pleaded the payment, at different times, of several sums, particularly describing them by their amounts and dates.
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— Appeal from Guadaloupe County. This was a suit brought by the appellant to foreclose a mortgage, given by the appellee, to secure the payment of three hundred dollars. At the spring term, 1847, the defendant pleaded the payment, at different times, of several sums, particularly describing them by their amounts and dates. One of the items specified was a hundred dollars, alleged to have been paid by order of the plaintiff to his brother, Frederick Bissell; and the order, in the form of a letter, addressed by the plaintiff to the defendant, is appended to the bill of particulars annexed to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wheeler
There appear to have been other points made in*the district ■court, but the only ground relied on in argument for a reversal of the judgment, and the only question which is deemed to require particular notice, is as to the propriety of the ruling of the court in refusing a continuance.
It does not appear, and it is difficult to conceive, upon what ground a continuance was refused. It was a first application, and went even beyond what, has ever been required by any statute, upon the first application for a continuance. It embraces, indeed, a literal compliance with the requirements prescribed…
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