Cramer v. Cornell.

W. M. Cramer, payee in a note for $8,500, executed by Cornell, brought this suit against Cornell thereon and to foreclose a lien on certain mineral interests in lands in Pecos county, Tex. Cornell by proper pleadings under District and County Court Rule 31, admitted plaintiff's cause of action except as same might be defeated by the special defenses pleaded by him to said note and lien, and was given the right to open and close both in the admission of evidence and in argument. The case was tried to a jury, but at the close of the evidence the court instructed a verdict in favor of Cornell,…