Page v. Arnim
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lavaca. The case was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. The trial in the district court was had in September, 1858. The record contains two hundred pages; the briefs of counsel cover some four hundred pages; and it is hardly probable that any reasonable history of the facts will be satisfactory to those who made the record.
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Appeal from Lavaca. The case was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. The trial in the district court was had in September, 1858. The record contains two hundred pages; the briefs of counsel cover some four hundred pages; and it is hardly probable that any reasonable history of the facts will be satisfactory to those who made the record. The points discussed by the chief justice, however, are few, and it is not very material that other questions should be noticed by the Reporter. Samuel H. Page, on the 5th of October, 1854, commenced his action of trespass to try…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, C. J
The only assignment of error on behalf of the appellant, Page, the plaintiff below, which presents a question of importance, is that complaining of the charge given by the court to the jury. It may be generally said, in answer to the assignments which complain of the ruling of the court on appellant’s exceptions to the testimony to which he objected, that as appellees relied, as a defense, upon an estoppel in pais to conclude appellant’s recovery of the land for which he sues, they were entitled to show all the facts and circumstances of the dealing of appellant, and those under…
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