Russell v. Miller
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. .Leroy W. Cooper. This suit was instituted against R. R. Russell, Clinton Allen and James A. Corley, originally in a justice's court, on a promissory note executed by them to Miller for $78.30. Corley and Allen pleaded that they were sureties; Russell pleaded that the note was for the hire of a negro for the year 1865, and that by emancipation he had lost the services of" the negro for one-half of the period, and that ..he had…
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Appeal from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. .Leroy W. Cooper. This suit was instituted against R. R. Russell, Clinton Allen and James A. Corley, originally in a justice's court, on a promissory note executed by them to Miller for $78.30. Corley and Allen pleaded that they were sureties; Russell pleaded that the note was for the hire of a negro for the year 1865, and that by emancipation he had lost the services of" the negro for one-half of the period, and that ..he had compromised and settled the matter *ith Miller by paying him one-half the face of the note in specie. Tried before…
1Opinion of the Court
Reeves, Associate Justice.
On the twenty-fourth of January, 1873, appellee applied to the District Court of Houston county to amend a judgment rendered by said court in his favor against R. R. Russell, and which, as he alleges in his motion, should have been entered against appellants, Clinton Allen and James A. Corley, but that their names were omitted in the entry of judgment by the clerk through mistake. The suit was originally instituted in the court of a justice of the peace, by appellee against R. R. Russell and the appellants, Allen and Corley, on their promissory note, payable to…
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