Atcheson v. Scott
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grimes. Tried below before the Hon. James B. Burnett. This case was before the Supreme Court in 1873. (38 Tex., 384.) In the report of the case, on pages 384-386, a statement of the matters in controversy is given.
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Appeal from Grimes. Tried below before the Hon. James B. Burnett. This case was before the Supreme Court in 1873. (38 Tex., 384.) In the report of the case, on pages 384-386, a statement of the matters in controversy is given. After the case was remanded, Mrs. Scott further amended her petition in intervention mating - Johnson a party, alleging that he had bought the land of Mainwarring pending this suit and with notice of the lien of intervenor, (Mrs. Scott,) and that by agreement between them Johnson retains of the purchase - money enough to pay this claim of appellee, if it shall he held a…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
Our opinion is, that a promissory note made in this State during the late civil war, payable “ twenty-four months after the ratification of the treaty of peace between the United States and the Confederate States of America, with eight per cent interest from date, in whatever may then be the legal tender of the country,” is not void for uncertainty or illegality, nor is it, when properly construed, a note payable in Confederate money. As in cases of contracts payable in Confederate money, this court has departed from the line of decisions inaugurated shortly after the…
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