Tanner v. Jackson

MARTIN, Justice.

Appellants, Stanley Tanner and Charlie Archer, residents of El Paso County, Texas, met appellee, Vernon L. Jackson, a resident of Lubbock County, Texas, in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Appellants allege that appel-lee became indebted to Tanner in the amount of $1,995 for gambling losses incurred at Ruidoso. The record details numerous transactions and representations whereby the scene of activity was transferred from Ruidoso> New Mexico, to Lubbock and from there to El Paso.

In El Paso the appellants prepared a receipt for $1,500 and stated therein that the $1,500 was in full payment…