Case ID: white-w_1/html/0606-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Watts, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wm. H. Young v. Chas. Bickley.
    (No. 1972, Op. Book No. 2, p. 328.)
    Appeal from Bexar County.
    May 25, 1881.
   Opinion by

Watts, J.

§ 1073. Affidavit in lieu of appeal bond. An affidavit 'made in lieu of an appeal bond, on appeal from justice’s to county court, which stated that the party appealing, “by reason of his poverty, is unable to give the appeal bond in this case,” was not in compliance with the law, and the judgment of the county court was reversed and the cause dismissed. [Green v. Martin, 43 Tex. 653; Ewell v. Anderson, 49 Tex. 697.]

Reversed and dismissed.