Crosby v. Huston
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris Oounty. The facts of this case are so fully stated in the opinion of the court it is deemed unnecessary to repeat them here. The only matters presented by the record and agreed to at bar, which have not been stated in the opinion, are: 1st. William Punchard, being called as a witness by plaintiff, was objected to by the defendant upon the alleged ground of interest.
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Appeal from Harris Oounty. The facts of this case are so fully stated in the opinion of the court it is deemed unnecessary to repeat them here. The only matters presented by the record and agreed to at bar, which have not been stated in the opinion, are: 1st. William Punchard, being called as a witness by plaintiff, was objected to by the defendant upon the alleged ground of interest. He had owned in his own right five of the negroes which were conveyed by the bill of sale to Orosby, and therefore united with Samuel "W. Punchard in executing the bill of sale. These five negroes were not…
1Opinion of the Court
HeMpitill, O. J.
The petition alleges that on the twentieth day of September, 1836, at Natchez, in the state of Mississippi, Samuel W. Punchard, a resident of that place, conveyed to James B. Creecy a large amount of property, among which were certain negroes therein *(155)named to secure to Herman, Briggs & Co. a large debt due from Punchard to that firm. That by the deed Herman, Briggs & Co., or either of them, were authorized to substitute, on certain contingencies, some other person as trustee in piece of Creecy, and that the plaintiff has been substituted.
That by the laws of Mississippi…
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