Cotton v. Cooper
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Fourth Supreme Judicial District. Action by Will Cooper against Almon Cotton and another. Judgment for plaintiff was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals on appeal of the named defendant (160 S. W. 597), and said defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSonfiedd, P. J.
Suit by Will Cooper, plaintiff, against Almon Cotton and G. E. Cotton, defendants, to recover actual damages in the sum of $700, alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff by reason of his discharge from the service of the railroad company through the wrongful, fraudulent, and malicious conduct of defendants and their agents, and for $5,000 exemplary damages.
Plaintiff alleged that the defendants, falsely claiming that he was indebted to tliem in the sum of $35, filed with the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company, his employers, copies of two written instruments, purporting to be…
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