Farrar v. Edwin Bates & Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. George N. Abridge. On February 1, 1879, defendants in error, Edwin Bates & Co., instituted suit No. 1512 in the district court of Ellis county, against J. M. Dixon & Co., on a certain promissory note for $1,083.95, executed and delivered by Dixon & Co. to Bates & Co., of date August 15, 1878, due January 1, 1879, and in which suit Bates & Co. subsequently obtained judgment against Dixon & Co. for $1,116.46, principal and…
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Error from Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. George N. Abridge. On February 1, 1879, defendants in error, Edwin Bates & Co., instituted suit No. 1512 in the district court of Ellis county, against J. M. Dixon & Co., on a certain promissory note for $1,083.95, executed and delivered by Dixon & Co. to Bates & Co., of date August 15, 1878, due January 1, 1879, and in which suit Bates & Co. subsequently obtained judgment against Dixon & Co. for $1,116.46, principal and interest. March 25, 1879, Bates & Co. sued out a writ of garnishment under the terms of the statute, fully describing the above…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
This contest grows out of a suit, originally instituted in the district court of Ellis county, by Edwin Bates & Co., defendants in error, against J. M. Dixon & Co., the original defendants, but who are not before this court. J. R. Farrar, the present plaintiff in error, was garnisheed in that suit at the instance of Bates & Co., and sues out this writ of error to reverse the judgment therein rendered against him as such garnishee.
Several of the assigned errors are not relied on in the brief of counsel for Farrar, the plaintiff in error, and those which are assigned…
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