Crook v. McGreal
Texas Supreme Court
— Writ of Error from Brazoria County. This was a suit brought by Hugh MeGreal for the use of the other defendants in error.
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— Writ of Error from Brazoria County. This was a suit brought by Hugh MeGreal for the use of the other defendants in error. The petition represents that one Leah Alsbury, at the instance and request of said MeGreal, executed to John Adriance a deed of live hundred and fifty acres of land, the property of the plaintiff, which is particularly described; that William T. 'Crook promised and agreed to pay him the sum of two-thousand dollars for the land; that the deed was executed to Adriance in trust for Crook, at the request of Crook; that the consideration was unpaid, though its receipt was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lipscomb
The plaintiffs in error have assigned a great many errors,, on which they ask the reversal of the judgment of the court below. We consider, however, but two of them to be very • material, and shall therefore confine our attention to them. It is to the 3d and 5th assignments of error. The first of them is to the third charge asked by the defendants in error, who were the plaintiffs in . the court below, and given by the judge. It is as follows, i. e.i “That if the jury believe from the evidence that the notes offered in evidence by the defendant, as set off, were barred by limitation, at the…
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