Case ID: white-w_1/html/0090-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. F. Ketcherside v. J. P. Cox et al.
    (No. 1258, R. Book No. 4, p. 194.)
    Appeal from Hill County.
   Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 228. Jurisdiction of county court. Suit was brought in justice’s court for $150 damages. Judgment rendered for defendants that they recover costs. On appeal to the county court a motion to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction was sustained, on the ground that the amount of the judgment appealed from was less than $20. Held, error.

November 21, 1882.

The amount in controversy in the original suit, and not the amount of the judgment rendered, determines on appeal the jurisdiction of the appellate tribunal. [Rev. Stats, art. 1165; Jones v. Jones, Austin Term, ante, p. 19.]

Reversed and remanded.