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11 Tex. 210

Evans v. Hardgrove

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1853

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1853-07-01

Suit (removed from a Justice’s Court) on a note for $86, by an indorsee, against the maker. The person by whom the appellant could have proved the same facts to which he proposed himself to testify, was the payee of the note, and resided in Tennessee.

Decided 1853-07-01

Lipscomb J.

¶1There are two points, presented by the appellant, on which he relies to recover the judgment of the Court below.

¶2The first is the refusal of the Court below, to admit the depositions taken by the appellant. The Court’s refusal was based upon the fact that they had not been filed in the Clerk’s office, “ one entire day before the commencement of the trial.” There is no error in the ruling of the Court; it is in accordance with the proviso to Art. 733, Hart. Dig.

¶3The second point is, to the ruling of the Court in refusing to permit the appellant to make himself a witness. He did not bring himself within the provision of the law. He shows that there was a witness by whom he could prove Ike same facts, proposed to be proven by his o, Hart. Dig.; Crozier, Rhea & Co. v. Kirker, 4 Tex. R. 255.) The judgment is affirmed.

¶4JhSgment affirjned.

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