Luter v. Hunter
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Goliad. The ease was tried before Hon. E. P. Hpton, one of the district judges. W-ar -was the inevitable result of secession. With the latter commenced actual hostilities. These culminated in the attack upon Fort Sumter, and were soon followed by a formal declaration of war by the confederate congress against all the free states, and such citizens in Maryland and the other border states and the territories as should prove hostile to their cause.
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Appeal from Goliad. The ease was tried before Hon. E. P. Hpton, one of the district judges. W-ar -was the inevitable result of secession. With the latter commenced actual hostilities. These culminated in the attack upon Fort Sumter, and were soon followed by a formal declaration of war by the confederate congress against all the free states, and such citizens in Maryland and the other border states and the territories as should prove hostile to their cause. (Act May 6, 1861, p. 190.) As one of the fruits of this war, all persons in the United States residing out of the jurisdiction of what…
1Opinion of the CourtHamilton, J.
This suit was commenced by the appellee before a justice of the peace for Goliad county, to recover of the appellant the principal and interest of a note due on the 19th March, 1861, for $100. On the 2d October, 1865, he obtained judgment, from which the appellant prosecuted certiorari; and in his petition for the writ sets forth in substance the following facts and reasons for its issuance, to wit: After stating the fact of the rendition of the judgment, he complains that it'was wrong, unjust, and contrary to law, because he says that upon the trial it was proved that the note sued on was,…
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