Jones v. Cavasos
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Calhoun. The case was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. This suit was originally brought by the plaintiffs in error in the district court of Cameron county, on July 31, 1854, against the defendants in error, Maria Josefa Cavasos, Elisha Basse, Robert H. Hord, and the city of Brownsville, to recover a small tract of land, then and now within the limits of Fort Brown.
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Error from Calhoun. The case was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. This suit was originally brought by the plaintiffs in error in the district court of Cameron county, on July 31, 1854, against the defendants in error, Maria Josefa Cavasos, Elisha Basse, Robert H. Hord, and the city of Brownsville, to recover a small tract of land, then and now within the limits of Fort Brown. The defendants, except the city of Brownsville, answered by a demurrer, and pleas of general denial, and not guilty, and on May 8,1855, Maria Josefa Cavasos filed a plea of reconvention in…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The correctness of the ruling of the court *432in the exclusion of the evidence offered hy the plaintiffs is the most material point complained of by them; and whether the action of the court can be maintained as an abstract principle of law, and for the reasons given, may admit of doubt; but, as said by Mr. Justice Bell, in Blackwell v. Patton, 23 Tex., 674, “We do not feel it to be our duty to inquire into the correctness of the ruling of the court excluding the testimony offered by the defendant. The parties have not seen proper to bring us a statement of facts, and we cannot know from the…
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