Cockburn v. Irvin

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This appeal was prosecuted from the district court of Harris county to the Galveston Court of Civil Appeals, and transferred to this court by orders of the Supreme Court.

We take the following statement of the nature and result of this suit, as tried in the lower court, from appellee’s brief:

“This suit was tried upon Plaintiff’s First Amended Original Petition and Defendants’ Amended Original Answers,

“Plaintiff alleged in substance in his said petition that he entered into an agreement at the instance of the Defendant H. C. Cockburn, wherein Cockburn induced him to…