Watts & Weidemeyer v. State ex rel. Jowers

Citations

• 61 Tex. 184
• 2 Tex. L. R. 684
• 1884 Tex. LEXIS 69

Syllabus

<p>1. Cotton weighers — One who kept scales in a city on which to weigh produce, who solicited orders to weigh upon them, and who was not the official public weigher, was not liable on a quo warranto to the official weigher, on account of weighing produce under written instructions from the owners thereof. Such a person had the right under the law to keep scales for weighing in a city; to pursue the business of a private cotton weigher, and to solicit such business on private orders as he was allowed to receive.</p>