Burnett v. Waddell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. B. S. Walker. The plea of bankruptcy filed in the supreme court on the 31st of January, 1881, was as follows: a And the appellant, John H. Burnett, comes and says, that since the rendition of judgment against him in the district court of Houston county, on the-day of -, 1875, and this the last term of this honorable court, at, to wit, on the 27th day of November, 1880, by the judgment of the honorable the district court of the…
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Appeal from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. B. S. Walker. The plea of bankruptcy filed in the supreme court on the 31st of January, 1881, was as follows: a And the appellant, John H. Burnett, comes and says, that since the rendition of judgment against him in the district court of Houston county, on the-day of -, 1875, and this the last term of this honorable court, at, to wit, on the 27th day of November, 1880, by the judgment of the honorable the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas, sitting at Galveston, the said John H. Burnett, having been…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Assoclate Justice.
This case has been pending in this court since January 7, 1876, and is an appeal by Burnett from a monied judgment recorded against him by Waddell in 1875. At the present term appellant filed a paper entitled “Plea of Bankruptcy,” setting up a discharge of Burnett from debts provable and existing on August 3, 1878, regularly granted by the H. S. district court for the eastern district of Texas, on November 27, 1880. The prayer of the plea is, that Burnett “be hence dismissed, and that no further proceedings be had against him on said judgment before this honorable…
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