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11 Tex. 692

Thatcher v. Mills

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1854

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1854-07-01

Suit by the appellees on a draft drawn by the appellant on L. J. Latham to the order of B. & W. Milburn, and indorsed to the appellees. The defendant filed an answer which contained several pleas in confession and avoidance, and concluded with a general denial. There was a statement of facts; and it did not appear therefrom that the draft had been given in evidence, nor that its absence was accounted for.

Decided 1854-07-01

Lipscomb, J.

¶1It is assigned for error, that the draft on which this suit was instituted, was not given in evidence, nor was its absence accounted for.

¶2If there had not been a full statement of the facts in this case, agreed on by the counsel for the plaintiff and the defendant, we would have presumed that the draft, upon which suit was brought, was read in evidence; as a judgment is entitled to every presumption in its favor. But where there is a statement of the evidence, agreed on, there is no room for such a presumption ; and a verdict rendered without it, or its absence accounted for, ought to have been set aside, and a new trial granted. For this error the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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