Redus v. Burnett
Texas Supreme Court
.Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. Geo. H. Hoonan. Suit by Talliaferro Burnett against William Redus, filed the 12th day of Septemb )r, 1879, on a decree of the chancery court for Monroe county, Mississippi, rendered on the 14th day of February, 1873, against William Redus and one T. W. Baker, who, it was alleged, were the executors of the estate of Aaron Redus, deceased, for the sum of §10,456. Judgment against William Redus for the sum of $8,990. The errors…
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.Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. Geo. H. Hoonan. Suit by Talliaferro Burnett against William Redus, filed the 12th day of Septemb )r, 1879, on a decree of the chancery court for Monroe county, Mississippi, rendered on the 14th day of February, 1873, against William Redus and one T. W. Baker, who, it was alleged, were the executors of the estate of Aaron Redus, deceased, for the sum of §10,456. Judgment against William Redus for the sum of $8,990. The errors assigned were: First. The court erred in overruling the objection of the defendant to the introduction in evidence, by the…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.—
The court in this case gave no charge of its own to the jury, but contented itself with giving and refusing such instructions as were asked by the respective parties.
The main issues on which they were to pass, owing to this absence of a general charge from the court, were not fully and clearly set forth and explained to the jury," as they ought always to be in cases of this character.
*581The instructions asked by each party are wanting in the signature of counsel to them. The statute (R. S., art. 1319), it is true, does not in so many words say that the instructions asked…
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