Irwin v. State Nat. Bank of Ft. Worth

Appellee, as plaintiff, sued D. L. Irwin on a promissory note for $884, dated December 2, 1913, payable to plaintiff 60 days after date. Defendant answered, among other pleas, that during the year 1911 he was engaged in the retail lumber business in the city of Ft. Worth, and that he took over the business of Guy C. Elliott & Co., of Smithfield, Tex., some three or four years prior to December 2, 1911, and that, after conducting said business at Smithfield for some time, he moved the same to Ft. Worth, and conducted the same in his own name; that on the 1st day of January, 1912, he was…