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BENNETT v. BUTTERWORTH

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52 U.S. 669 (1851)

11 How. 669

13 L.Ed. 859

JOHN H. BENNETT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. SAMUEL F. BUTTERWORTH.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 7, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Upon this exception, the case came up to this court, and was argued by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Harris, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Walker and Mr. Volney Howard, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Texas.

The common law has been adopted in Texas, but the forms and rules of pleading in common law cases have been abolished, and the parties are at liberty to set out their respective claims and defences in any form that will bring them before the court. And as there is...

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