Wooley v. Bell
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Lee. Tried below before Hon. John H. Tate. Bell sued Wooley and recovered judgment from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
KEY, Associate Justice.
Appellee sued to recover one stallion and the value of his services, alleged to be $400, and another horse and one set of harness, alleged to be worth $30. From verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff, the defendant has appealed.
The main controversy in the case seems to have been concerning the ownership of the stallion. Both parties claimed to have bought the animal from one Nasworthy. The plaintiff and Nasworthy testified that the latter had sold the stallion to the plaintiff, while the defendant testified that Nasworthy sold the animal to him. Elihu Pennington, a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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