Lea v. Cassen
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before Hon. Geo. H. CPAJG. The appellee, Cassen, commenced suit before a justice of the peace, against Etta Mills, to recover the amount of a bill of exchange drawn on, endorsed, and accepted by said Etta Mills, and payable to the plaintiff. Etta Mills having died pending the appeal to the Circuit Court, appellant Lea, who became her administrator, was made a party in her stead.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before Hon. Geo. H. CPAJG. The appellee, Cassen, commenced suit before a justice of the peace, against Etta Mills, to recover the amount of a bill of exchange drawn on, endorsed, and accepted by said Etta Mills, and payable to the plaintiff. Etta Mills having died pending the appeal to the Circuit Court, appellant Lea, who became her administrator, was made a party in her stead. The material facts of the case may be thus stated: In February, 1873, Etta Mills, alias Eugenie Estes, appellant’s intestate, and Jennie Walters were common and notorious…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The bill of exceptions purports to set out all the evidence which was given to the jury, as well as that which was offered by the appellant and rejected, and that which was admitted against his objection. If on the-evidence admitted, and that which was rejected, excluding-that which was objected to, the Circuit Court could have-properly instructed the jury, that the appellant had established no just defense to the plaintiff’s action, it is unnecessary to decide whether its several rulings to which exceptions-were reserved, were erroneous or not; for if erroneous, they *315have not injured the…
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