Patterson & Wallace v. Frazer
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District in an appeal from El Paso County. Frazer sued Patterson & Wallace and recovered judgment. Defendants appealed and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
For the purposes of this opinion the following statement of the case will be sufficient. On or about the 1st day of February; 1901, Ella Frazer employed a firm of lawyers, Patterson & Wallace, composed of the plaintiffs in error, who were practicing as partners in the city of El Paso, to institute in the District Court of Beeves County a suit in her name against John Moore and Ellen Moore, husband and wife, for damages on account of these slanderous words spoken by Ellen Moore of and concerning the said Ella Frazer, to-wit: “The Frazer girls need not be talking about…
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