King v. Gray
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Jasper. Tried below before the Hon. Archibald W. 0. Hicks. Suit commenced Oct. 4th, 1853, by appellee against appellant on a bond in the penal sum of twelve hundred dollars, reciting that the defendant had delivered to the plaintiff Ennis Hardin’s headright certificate for two thirds of a league and labor of land, which plaintiff was to locate on the waters of Beach Creek, in the county of Tyler, and defray all the expenses in perfecting the title; and…
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Appeal from Jasper. Tried below before the Hon. Archibald W. 0. Hicks. Suit commenced Oct. 4th, 1853, by appellee against appellant on a bond in the penal sum of twelve hundred dollars, reciting that the defendant had delivered to the plaintiff Ennis Hardin’s headright certificate for two thirds of a league and labor of land, which plaintiff was to locate on the waters of Beach Creek, in the county of Tyler, and defray all the expenses in perfecting the title; and conditioned that the defendant should make to the plaintiff a good and Iona fide, title to one-third of said land, to be divided…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
Two grounds of error are assigned, 1st. The improper exclusion of evidence; 2nd. The refusal of a new trial.
The answer of the witness to the 5th interrogatory was excluded, it seems, on account of the generality and want of relevancy of the question ; and the succeeding answers to the 11th inclusive, were also excluded because they were based on the 5th. The force of the objection to the deposition is not *70very apparent. It was not necessary that the relevancy of every question should appear from the single question and answer. If its relevancy might be seen from other parts of ' the…
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