Dyer v. Sullivan
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Port Bend. Tried below before the Hon. H. H. Hunger. The petition was as follows : James S. Sullivan, a resident citizen of the county of Fort Bend in the State of Texas, complaining of Clement C. Dyer, President of the Board of Trustees of the Richmond Male and Female Academy, who is also a resident of said county, would most respectfully represent unto your Honor, that said academy is justly indebted to your petitioner in the sum of three hundred dollars with…
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Error from Port Bend. Tried below before the Hon. H. H. Hunger. The petition was as follows : James S. Sullivan, a resident citizen of the county of Fort Bend in the State of Texas, complaining of Clement C. Dyer, President of the Board of Trustees of the Richmond Male and Female Academy, who is also a resident of said county, would most respectfully represent unto your Honor, that said academy is justly indebted to your petitioner in the sum of three hundred dollars with interest and more ; but said amount of three hundred dollars is the amount for which he brings this suit; for this, that,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
The defendant in error, James S. Sullivan, who was plaintiff below, loaned to the Richmond Male and Female Academy, or to the Board of Trustees of that Academy, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for which fifteen certificates were issued, (as appears from the recitals of the mortgage.) The certificates were for one hundred dollars each, and one of the three sued upon in this action is copied below ; the form of the three being, totidem verbis, the same except as to the numbers :
This is to certify that J. S. Sullivan has loaned the Board of Trustees of the Richmond Male and…
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