Wright v. Hays
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Parker. Tried below before the Hon. A. B. Horton. W.. B. Hays, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below. He brought this suit in February, 1861, for specific performance of the following contract: “March.12,1857, Walnut Creek, Parker Oountt, Texas.
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Appeal from Parker. Tried below before the Hon. A. B. Horton. W.. B. Hays, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below. He brought this suit in February, 1861, for specific performance of the following contract: “March.12,1857, Walnut Creek, Parker Oountt, Texas. “ Know all men by these presents that Robert Wright and C. C. Hays, have this day entered into an agreement concerning a piece of land lying on Walnut creek and in Robert Wright’s survey, commencing at the northeast corner and running south to a certain post near the creek; thence west to said Wright’s fence; thence north for…
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
The pleadings in tins cause are too numerous to .admit a specific notice of -each, or of the several causes of action ¡or defense attempted to be set up by the plaintiff and defendant in the court below. We will therefore -only notice such of the assignments of -errors, and the-questions therein raised, as may be deemed necessary for a correct -determination of this cause; and, in doing so, we discover no sufficient error to authorize a reversal of the judgment unless it be contained in the sixth assignment. It is believed that the plaintiff’s petition showed upon its face a sufficient -cause…
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