Case ID: tex_19/html/0160-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Wheeler, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John C. Lane v. James S. Brander and Another.
    The evident meaning of the Statute (Hart. Dig. Art. 1753) which provides that cases removed by certiorari from a Justice’s Court to the District Court, shall be tried de novo, and if the judgment be affirmed ten per cent, damages shall be added, is that the damages shall be added to the sum found to be due upon the trial in the District Court, when it shall be the same as that adjudged by the Justice, (or more,) thereby affirming the correctness of the decision of the Justice.
    Error from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. Charles A. Frazer.
    Judgment in favor of the defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, in a Justice’s Court, for $80 30. Gertioro/ri by plaintiff in error; verdict for defendants in error for same amount, increased by interest since accrued ; judgment for defendants in error for the amount of the verdict and for ten per cent, damages thereon.
    
      S. G. Swan, for plaintiff in error,
    argued that the ten per cent, damages should have been computed upon the amount of the judgment of the Justice.
    
      T. W. Jones, for defendants in error.
   Wheeler, J.

The only error assigned, which is deemed to require notice, is the giving of damages upon the amount of the verdict; and in this there was no error. It is evident the Statute does not intend an affirmance of the judgment of the Justice as upon error; for it provides that the trial may be de novo, “ and if the judgment be affirmed, ten per cent, damages shall be added.” (Hart. Dig. Art. 1753.) The evident meaning is, that the damages shall be added to the sum found to be due upon the trial in the District Court, when it shall be the same as that adjudged by the Justice, (or more,) thereby affirming the correctness of the decision of the Justice.

There is no error in the judgment, and it is affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.