Case ID: tex-civ-app_63/html/0196-01.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

Jonas Maples v. Chas. MacNelly.
    Decided December 3, 1910.
    Justice Court—Jurisdiction—Appeal.
    A Court of Civil Appeals has no jurisdiction of an appeal from a County Court when the cause of action was an account for more than $200 and the suit originated in a Justice Court.
    
      Appeal from the County Court of Parker County. Tried below before Hon. F. O. McKinzey.
    
      John L. Poulter, for appellant.
    
      T. F. Temple and Stennis & Wilson, for appellee.
   SPEER, Associate Justice.

This appeal must be disposed of on appellant’s motion to reverse and dismiss the cause. The suit originated in a Justice’s Court and, as we construe the pleadings, was to recover the total amount of a lengthy account aggregating two hundred and fifty-one' dollars. This is in excess of the jurisdiction of the Justice’s. Court; that court having no jurisdiction, the County Court acquired none on appeal.

The judgment of the County Court is therefore reversed and judgment here rendered dismissing appellee’s cause of action.

Reversed and dismissed.