Brown v. Galveston Wharf Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Galveston County. Suit by R. A. Brown, executrix, against Galveston Wharf Company, in which Leon Blum intervened and plaintiff appealed from the judgment rendered. The appellate court, on cross-assignments by the intervener, having rendered judgment in his favor, appellant obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN Associate Justice.
R. A. Brown, the executrix of J. M. Brown, deceased, brought this suit against the Galveston Wharf Company to recover of it a balance of a salary claimed to be due by the wharf company,to J. M. Brown, as president of the said company, from February 1, 1895, to December 25, 1895. The wharf company pleaded that during the time for which the plaintiff sought to recover the salary of J. M. Brown, he was, on account of illness, incapacitated from performing his duties as president of the company and was absent from the State for several months during the time. That the…
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