Parsons v. Keys
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. J. W. Pope, special judge. Suit by Keys & McKnight, against Greorgie Parsons, brought in 1871, for goods claimed in the petition to have been necessaries, sold and delivered to Mrs. Parsons in 1861-62. She set up her minority at the time of the purchase as a defense, and alleged that she then had a guardian of her person and estate.
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Appeal from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. J. W. Pope, special judge. Suit by Keys & McKnight, against Greorgie Parsons, brought in 1871, for goods claimed in the petition to have been necessaries, sold and delivered to Mrs. Parsons in 1861-62. She set up her minority at the time of the purchase as a defense, and alleged that she then had a guardian of her person and estate. The character of the guardianship is not disclosed by the evidence; nor does it appear that she was supplied with necessaries by any one. Counsel for defendant requested the court, in effect, to charge the jury, among…
1Opinion of the Court
Ireland, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by appellees to recover on an account for goods sold to appellant while she was single and a minor.
There is a plea of minority, of payment, and that she had a guardian at the time the account was made. The proof shows that she had a guardian, but whether of her estate *559or person does not appear. It is also shown by the evidence that she was about fifteen years of age when she got the goods; that she had a mother living, and that appellees knew she was a minor. It does not appear whether the guardian or mother either proposed to supply her needs,…
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