Case Name: HOUSING AUTHORITY, CITY OF EDGEWOOD, Texas, Appellant, v. G.E. SANDERS, Appellee
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1985-04-18
Citations: 693 S.W.2d 2
Docket Number: No. 12-83-0197-CV
Parties: HOUSING AUTHORITY, CITY OF EDGEWOOD, Texas, Appellant, v. G.E. SANDERS, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 693
Pages: 2–4

Head Matter:
HOUSING AUTHORITY, CITY OF EDGEWOOD, Texas, Appellant, v. G.E. SANDERS, Appellee.
No. 12-83-0197-CV.
Court of Appeals of Texas, Tyler.
April 18, 1985.
Rehearing Denied with Opinion May 23, 1985.
Billy D. Hullum, Wills Point, for appellant.
W. Bruce Monning, Vial, Hamilton, Koch, Tubb & Knox, Dallas, B.J. Wynne, Wynne & Wynne, Wills Point, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Housing Authority, City of Edge-wood, plaintiff/appellant, initiated this suit for forcible detainer against G.E. Sanders, defendant/appellee, in the Justice Court, Precinct One, Van Zandt County, on April 1, 1983. Apparently, sometime later, the suit went to trial before the justice of the peace; however, no judgment signed by the justice of the peace appears in the record. We need look no further. The record affirmatively shows that the county court was without jurisdiction to entertain the purported appeal from the justice court. A justice court judgment is a prerequisite to an appeal to the county court. Rules 557, 558, and 748, TEX.R.CIV.P.; Pullin v. Parrish, 806 S.W.2d 241 (Tex.Civ.App.— San Antonio 1957, writ ref'd).
The judgment of the county court is reversed, and the appeal proceedings pending therein are dismissed.
. After the trial of the de novo appeal in the county court, the county judge found that no judgment was signed by the justice of the peace in the cause.