Stiff v. Fisher

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by J. J. Fisher against E.R. Stiff, as principal, and Gabe Beck, as guarantor, to recover the sum of $10,200, on account of the alleged failure of Stiff to deliver to Fisher 2000 head of. yearling steers, as provided in a contract entered into between them on the 21st day of December, 1889. By the terms of' this contract these cattle were to be delivered about the 20th day of April,. 1890, at or near Valley View, in Cooke County, Texas, after being classed and passed upon at Stiff’s ranch in Collin and Denton counties; but to be-counted at…