De Leon v. Manuel Trevino & Bro.
Texas Supreme Court
July 17, 1871, Manuel Trevino & Bro. sued Manuel-Leon De Leon, of Camargo, Mexico, on four promissory notes of date October 8, 1866, executed by defendant, each note reciting that it was “ for equal value received in money and merchandise to my entire satisfaction,” the notes amounting in the aggregate, with interest, to $12,977.07. An attachment was levied. Subsequently personal service was had. Pending the suit, May, 1872, before answer, defendant died.
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July 17, 1871, Manuel Trevino & Bro. sued Manuel-Leon De Leon, of Camargo, Mexico, on four promissory notes of date October 8, 1866, executed by defendant, each note reciting that it was “ for equal value received in money and merchandise to my entire satisfaction,” the notes amounting in the aggregate, with interest, to $12,977.07. An attachment was levied. Subsequently personal service was had. Pending the suit, May, 1872, before answer, defendant died. November 25, 1874, Francisca Salinas De Leon, widow and administratrix of deceased defendant, was admitted as defendant; and she pleaded a…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The only material question presented by the assignment of errors in this case, relates to the exclusion of the evidence offered on the trial in the court below, to prove that the notes, which are the foundation of the action, were given by the appellant’s intestate, Manuel Leon De Leon, to appellees, on a settlement and liquidation • of a business enterprise, in which said Do Leon and appellees, Trevino & Bro., had been jointly engaged, during the war between the United States and the Confederate States, for introducing merchandise from Matamoras, Mexico, into Texas,…
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