Case Name: RAVEL v. HAYMON KRUPP & CO.
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1918-10-31
Citations: 206 S.W. 211
Docket Number: No. 873
Parties: RAVEL v. HAYMON KRUPP & CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 206
Pages: 211–212

Head Matter:
RAVEL v. HAYMON KRUPP & CO.
(No. 873.)
(Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. El Paso.
Oct. 31, 1918.)
1. Appeal and Error <&wkey; 1091(2) — Presumptions — Oral Pleadings — Intermediate Courts.
Where pleadings in justice court are oral, and no record made on appeal, the presumption on appeal from intermediate court is that they were consistent with the rulings of the trial court.
2. Evidence <&wkey;317(10) — Hearsay — Counterfeit Money.
In action for goods sold and delivered under defense of payment, where the reply alleged that the money was ■ counterfeit, evidence that the collector of customs declared the money counterfeit, confiscated it and refused to return it, was inadmissible to show that the money was counterfeit.
3. Appeal and Error <&wkey; 1050(1) — Prejudice —Admission oe Evidence.
In action for goods sold and delivered under defense of payment, and reply alleging that money paid was counterfeit,' the error in admitting hearsay testimony, as to whether the money was counterfeit, was prejudicial, where no otíier testimony on the subject was offered.
Appeal from El Paso County Court, at Law; W. P. Brady, Judge.
Action by Haymon Krupp & Co. against Sam Ravel. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
M. W. Stanton, of El Paso, for appellant.
E. C. Knollenberg and Chas. H. Veale, both of Hi Paso, for appellee.

Opinion:
HARPER, C. J.
This action was brought in the justice court by Krupp & Co., against Sam Ravel, upon an account for $118.61, for merchandise sold and delivered.
Defendant pleaded payment in Villa money and set up written receipt, which by express terms accepts it unqualifiedly as payment of the debt. Judgment went for Ravel in justice court, was appealed to county court, and from judgment there rendered in favor of appellee, this appeal.
4 We glean from the record that the Villa money was delivered by appellant at a discount in payment of the bill. Appellee contends that it was received conditioned upon its being genuine money of the Pancho Villa issue and that it proved to be counterfeit.
Appellant urges:
(1) That there were no pleadings to support the judgment under the conclusion of law by trial court that it was counterfeit.
(1) Where pleadings are oral in justice court, and no record made upon appeal, the presumption is that they were consistent with the rulings of the trial court. Railway Co. v. Goodman, 189 S. W. 326.
(2) That there was no evidence to establish that the money was counterfeit.
(3) That the only evidence adduced concerning its being counterfeit was hearsay, and its admission objected to for that reason.
These assignments must be sustained. Substantially, the whole of the testimony offered in proof of its being counterfeit is:
"That upon receipt of the bills they were taken to Juarez, Mexico, to be hypothecated for their exchange value in United States currency; that upon presenting them the collector of customs of the port declared them counterfeit, confiscated them, and refused to return them."
The admission of this testimony was properly and timely objected to, for the reason that it was hearsay, and the objection overruled by the court. This ruling was error, for which the cause must be reversed and remanded, for, without this, in view of the written receipt accepting the money as payment, there is no evidence to support the finding that it was counterfeit.
Reversed and remanded.
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