Case ID: white-w_1/html/0428-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Le Geirse & Co. v. Mathews & Wright.
    (No. 1069, Op. Book No. 2, p. 347.)
    Appeal from Galveston County.
    February 19, 1881.
   Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 779. Damages; liquidated and unliquidated; counterclaim. Liquidated damages are damages ascertained and agreed upon. [Sedgwick on Dam. 427.] Damages whose amount has been determined by anticipatory agreement between the parties. [2 Bouvier’s Law Die. “ Liquidated Damages.”] A claim for unliquidated damages, not arising out of, incident to or connected with the plaintiff’s cause of action, cannot be pleaded as a counterclaim. [R. S. 649, 650; Carothers v. Thorp, 21 Tex. 358.]

Affirmed.