Parker v. McKelvain
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. John H. Reagan. The contract sued on was made part of the petition, and was as follows: State op Texas, ) This witnesseth I have this day transCoimty of Freestone, f ferred and sold unto J. McKelvain two notes, made by A: G. Wood for two hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each, made on the 18th day of January, 1854, bearing interest from date ; there are forty dollars paid on the notes ; now four hundred dollars of the…
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Error from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. John H. Reagan. The contract sued on was made part of the petition, and was as follows: State op Texas, ) This witnesseth I have this day transCoimty of Freestone, f ferred and sold unto J. McKelvain two notes, made by A: G. Wood for two hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each, made on the 18th day of January, 1854, bearing interest from date ; there are forty dollars paid on the notes ; now four hundred dollars of the remaining balance including interest, is sold unto the said McKelvain. I have also executed to said McKelvain my…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
This suit was brought by the .appellee in this
Court against the appellant,'on a guarantee that one Wood should pay to the plaintiff below the sum of four hundred dollars, with interest thereon, out of two notes sold by the appellant to the appellee. There was a waiver of a trial by jury and the cause submitted to the Judge, who gave judgment for the four hundred dollars, and decreed the enforcement of a lien upon two slaves for the satisfaction of the judgment. The defendant appealed to this Court.
The first error, assigned, is the overruling the appellant’s motion for a continuance of the…
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