Mathis v. Buford
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cherokee. Tried below before the Hon. William W. Morris. The 11th, 13th and 14th interrogatories to witness Averyi and the answers thereto, were as follows : Int. 11th. Were you and the friends generally of said Buford, requested to keep a lookout for said money and'the thief, and to apprehend the same ? and was the said Mathis so requested ? and to receive from him, if caught, the said money lost ? Ans.
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Appeal from Cherokee. Tried below before the Hon. William W. Morris. The 11th, 13th and 14th interrogatories to witness Averyi and the answers thereto, were as follows : Int. 11th. Were you and the friends generally of said Buford, requested to keep a lookout for said money and'the thief, and to apprehend the same ? and was the said Mathis so requested ? and to receive from him, if caught, the said money lost ? Ans. We were ; and the said Mathis was so requested to recover said money of said thief, if caught, which said request was made by Buford of both Mathis and myself, when we were about…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
This suit was brought to "recover money belonging to the plaintiff below, against the appellant, received by him. It is alleged that the money had been taken from the plaintiff, in California, by one Smock, and that it was after-wards delivered to the defendant in the Court below, Mathis, the appellant in this Court. There was a judgment, on the verdict of the jury, for the plaintiff; a motion for a new trial, which was overruled ; and defendant appealed.
The error assigned, on which appellant asks a reversal of the judgment, is the overruling exceptions of the defendant to the reading of the…
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