Pridgen v. Buchannon
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Be Witt. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. The main facts of this case may be found in the former report of it, contained in 24th Texas Reports, page, 655. After being then remanded to the District Court, the cause again came to trial at the Fall Term, 1860, of that court, when the following instructions were given to the jury: “In this case, gentlemen, if you believe, from the evidence, that at the time of hiring of the negro girl Biddy by defendants,…
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Appeal from Be Witt. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. The main facts of this case may be found in the former report of it, contained in 24th Texas Reports, page, 655. After being then remanded to the District Court, the cause again came to trial at the Fall Term, 1860, of that court, when the following instructions were given to the jury: “In this case, gentlemen, if you believe, from the evidence, that at the time of hiring of the negro girl Biddy by defendants, it was in contemplation by the parties that the negro was to be employed in Be Witt county only, under all…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This is the second time that this case has come before this court on the appeal of Pridgen, the plaintiff in the court below. On the former appeal, the judgment was reversed on account of erroneous instructions given to the jury. (24 Tex., 655.) It must be again reversed for the same reason. In the first instruction given by the court, the plaintiff’s right to recover was made to depend upon its being shown that the negro was to be employed, under all circumstances, in De Witt county; and that in violation of such understanding, the defendants removed her to another more unhealthy locality.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pridgen v. BuchannonTexas Supreme Court · 1859
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