Coverdill v. Seymour
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Colorado County. Seymour sued Coverdill and Buffington and had judgment which, on their appeal, was affirmed. Appellants then procured writ of error.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Colorado County. Seymour sued Coverdill and Buffington and had judgment which, on their appeal, was affirmed. Appellants then procured writ of error. The portion of the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, by Gill, Associate Justice, relating to the costs of the receivership was as follows: “The exceptions of plaintiff were sustained to so much of defendant’s third original amended answer as sought damages for the wrongful appointment of a receiver, and this action of the trial court is complained of in the sixth…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
The defendant in error, Seymour, sold to plaintiffs in error, Coverdill & Buffington, the property described in the following instrument of writing, upon the terms therein specified:
“Know all men by these presents, that I, S. K. Seymour, of the above State and county, for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars, in cash in hand paid to me by J. Coverdill and John B. Buffington, and the further sum of $4750 to be paid to me by them on or before ninety days after date, in evidence of which they have executed to me their joint arid several promissory…
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