Butt v. Schrimpf
Texas Supreme Court
Butt v. Schrimpf, 31 Tex. 601 (Tex. 1869)
Morrill
Butt v. Schrimpf
Opinion of the Court
—Judgment was rendered against the plaintiff in error for $1,276 86. He assigns as error, that the judgment was excessive.
Defendant in error acknowledges the error, and remits $110 20.
The judgment will therefore be reversed, and proceeding to enter such judgment as the district court should have rendered, it is considered that John E. Schrimpf have and recover of F. H. Butt the sum of $1,166 60, with interest at twelve per cent, per annum, from May 15, 1867, and costs in the district court, and that Schrimpf, the defendant, pay the costs in this court.
Reversed and reformed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- F. N. Butt v. John E. Schrimpf
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- Syllabus
- Where the plaintiff in error assigned as error that the judgment against him was excessive, and the defendant remitted the excess in the supreme court, the judgment was reversed and reformed, leaving the costs to stand against the defendant in the district court, hut giving him his costs in the supreme court. (Paschal’s Dig., Art. 1562, Note 604.)