City of Corsicana v. Kerr

HENRY, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued the city of Corsicana, alleging that as city engineer he had done certain surveying for the city, for doing which he was, by its ordinances, entitled to pay at the rate of one cent per foot for the distance necessarily and actually run, and twenty cents for each one hundred words "for recording all field notes. He sued for 8653.42, and recovered judgment for 8321, with interest thereon from the 5th day of June, 1888.

The cause was tried without a jury, and it appears from a bill of ex-ceptions that when it was called, and during its trial, and when…