Bonart v. Waag
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Stewart. The suit was brought by appellee to recover damages for injuries received in being beaten by appellants. There was nothing peculiar either in the brawl out of which the suit grew, or in the instructions given or refused, that illustrates any principle which is worth the time or space given to explain the proceedings below.
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Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Stewart. The suit was brought by appellee to recover damages for injuries received in being beaten by appellants. There was nothing peculiar either in the brawl out of which the suit grew, or in the instructions given or refused, that illustrates any principle which is worth the time or space given to explain the proceedings below. The charges given, as well as those refused, were quite lengthy, and in view of the opinion are not inserted.
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.—
The bill of exception taken to the action of the court in refusing to allow the appellant Ben Bonart to answer the question asked him, as to the purpose that induced him. to strike the appellee, does not show, as it ought to do (see District Court Rules, No. 51), what was the objection of appellee to the question.
In the state of the record, as we are not advised of the character of the exception taken to the evidence, we cannot revise it. Nor is the action of the court in this respect assigned as one of the grounds on which the motion for new trial was based.
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