Farrar v. Beeman
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. 0. W. Beeman, S. A. Beeman and J. A. Beeman brought this suit against the appellant J. E. Farrar upon a contract which was entered into by the Beemans and the Tecalote Stock Company of New Mexico, dated March 7, 1882, and executed in duplicate.
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Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. 0. W. Beeman, S. A. Beeman and J. A. Beeman brought this suit against the appellant J. E. Farrar upon a contract which was entered into by the Beemans and the Tecalote Stock Company of New Mexico, dated March 7, 1882, and executed in duplicate. The contract was assigned by the Tecalote Stock Company to James, Farrar with the consent of the Beemans, and it is as follows, viz.: The State of Texas, ) County of Navarro. [ Know all men by these presents, that we, C. W. Beeman, of said Navarro county, on the one part, representing…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
The plaintiffs sued, in effect, for damages for the failure on the part of the defendant to receive the residue of the cattle which, under the contract, he had agreed to take, and for the amount left unpaid for those cattle which he had received. The contract itself was set forth in the petition, together with the facts which had transpired under it, and the plaintiffs in their petition construed them as entitling them to the full amount of the stipulated damages, §3,000; and they prayed for judgment in accordance with that interpretation, and also for general relief.…
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