Rose v. San Antonio & Mexican Gulp Railroad
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Victoria. The case was tried before Hon. J. J. Holt, one of the district judges. The history of the enterprise is given in the case of this road against Jones, 28 Tex., 20. This was a suit brought by the appellees against the-appellants upon the following note: “For value received I promise to pay to the order of the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad Company the sum of one thousand dollars, when said company or their assigns shall have constructed said road…
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Appeal from Victoria. The case was tried before Hon. J. J. Holt, one of the district judges. The history of the enterprise is given in the case of this road against Jones, 28 Tex., 20. This was a suit brought by the appellees against the-appellants upon the following note: “For value received I promise to pay to the order of the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad Company the sum of one thousand dollars, when said company or their assigns shall have constructed said road from the city of' Lavaca to the town of Victoria and kept the same in operation, conveying passengers and freight between…
1Opinion of the Court
Morrill, O. J.
— The question presented for our decision in this case is, whether an action can be sustained on the instrument given by appellant, as follows:
“For value received, I promise to pay to the order of the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad Company the sum of $ 1,000, when said company or their assigns shall have constructed said road from the city of Lavaca to the town of Victoria, and kept the same in operation, conveying passengers and freight between said points, on the period of one year: this 7th day of March, A. D. 1860.”
P. R. Rose.
*59It is admitted or proved that the…
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