Colonial Trust Co. v. Hill County

This is a suit for debt based on a certain order made by the commissioners’ court of Hill county on February 28, 1919, by virtue of which Hill county purchased certain road machinery, afterwards delivered, accepted, used, and worn out on the public roads of the county. The debt is evidenced by two warrants dated respectively April 1 and April 4, 1919. The order and the warrants are copied in the dissenting opinion of Justice Stanford, 18 S.W.(2d) 787, 792.

The county, after paying the warrants, which matured previously, when these two-warrants matured, refused payment. Upon a trial of the case…