Texas Supreme Court July 1, 1858 (Beirne & Burnside v. Kelsey)

Roberts, J.

Suit was brought by plaintiffs against defendant on promissory notes. Defendant answered that the notes, about nine hundred dollars, were given in part payment for a stock of goods of about the value of seventeen hundred dollars, and that at the time of the purchase he paid them down eight hundred dollars of the purchase money; that they promised to have the goods insured in their