Case ID: tex-civ-app_43/html/0529-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SPEER, Associate Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tom Holley v. C. W. Duke.
    Decided June 23, 1906.
    Disposition of Parties Necessary to Pinal Judgment.
    Where the sureties on an attachment bond were parties defendant to a suit, but the judgment makes no disposition of them the judgment is not final and an appeal therefrom will be dismissed.
    Appeal from the County Court of Terry County. Tried below before Hon. W. H. Copeland.
    W. R. Spence, for appellant.
    
      W. T. McPherson, for appellee.
   SPEER, Associate Justice.

We have no jurisdiction to determine the merits of the controversy presented on this appeal, since there was no final judgment rendered in the cause in the County Court. The .suit was instituted by appellee against appellant on a stated account, and contemporaneous with the institution of the suit an attachment was sued out and levied upon property alleged to belong to appellant. Appellant reconvened for damages not only against appellee but also asked to have the sureties on appellee’s attachment bond cited, and prayed for judgment against them also on such bond. The sureties answered, but the judgment nowhere disposes of these parties. Until the judgment does dispose of all the issues and all the parties, it is not such final judgment as will support an appeal to this court. (Stewart v. Lenoir, 72 S. W. Rep., 619; Riddle v. Bearden, 10 Texas Ct. Rep., 346, and authorities cited in these cases.) Appeal dismissed.

Dismissed.