Case ID: sw_222/html/0157-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PHILLIPS, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WARREN HARDWARE CO. v. DODSON et al.
    (No. 2677.)
    (Supreme Court of Texas.
    May 26, 1920.)
    1. Appeal and error <©=>64— Decision of Court of Civil Appeals held final.
    The decision pf the Court of Civil Appeals in a garnishment proceeding based on a judgment is final, where the amount in controversy in the original suit was within the jurisdiction of the county court, and the ease does not fall within any of the exceptions provided in Rev. St-, art. 1591.
    2. Courts <S=»247 (7) — Supreme Court cannot grant writ of error, where Court of Civil Appeals has final jurisdiction.
    In a case of which the Couivt of Civil Appeals has final jurisdiction, the Supreme Court has no authority to grant a writ ot error because of conflict between the decision in such case and the decision of another Court of Civil Appeals. '
    Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Seventh Supreme Judicial District.
    Garnishment proceeding by the Warren Hardware Company against S. J. Dodson and. others.
    Judgment for plaintiff was reversed, and a judgment rendered in favor of certain defendants, by the Court of Civil Appeals (162 S. W. 952),."and plaintiff brings error. Writ of error dismissed.
    Knight & Slaton, of Hereford, and Moseley & Barcus, of Weatherford, for plaintiff in error.
    Carl Gilliland, of Hereford, and S. J. Dodson, of El Paso, for defendants in error.
   PHILLIPS, C. J.

The suit was a garnishment proceeding based upon a judgment. The amount in controversy in the) original suit was within the jurisdiction of the County Court. The case does not fall within any of the exceptions provided in Article 1591, and the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals is therefore final. The .writ of error was granted because of probable conflict between the decision and that of another Court of Civil Appeals. But the Supreme Court has no authority to grant a writ of error because of such conflict in a case of which the Court of Civil Appeals has final jurisdiction. Gallagher v. Rahm, 88 Tex. 514, 82 S. W. 523.

The writ was granted before the decision of Cole v. State of Texas, 106 Tex. 472, 170 S. W. 1036.

The case is accordingly dismissed for want of jurisdiction. 
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