Harris County v. Donaldson & Hines

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

On the 27th day of May, 1897, an action was brought in the court below by Donaldson & Hines against Harris County to recover, for the benefit of certain named assignees, to whom plaintiffs had assigned parts of the fund sued for, the sum of two thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars, in which amount it was alleged the county had become indebted to Donaldson & Hines as the contract price for putting furniture in a building built by the county for its Criminal District Court and jail. In this suit some of the assignees, to whom plaintiffs had assigned parts of…