Weaver v. City of Gainesville

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellant Weaver brought this suit in the District Court of Cooke County against the city of Gainesville, for a breach of an alleged verbal contract with said city, and, failing to recover, has appealed from the judgment of the court below.

The single question presented for our determination arises.upon the exclusion from the jury of certain testimony offered by appellant.

On or about the 3rd day of May, 1887, appellant executed and delivered to the appellee a deed in the usual form, conveying a certain piece of land situated in said city of Gainesville, reciting a…