Case Name: Nelson v. Strahan and Wife
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1852
Citations: 7 Tex. 583
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nelson v. Strahan and Wife.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 292–292

Head Matter:
Nelson v. Strahan and Wife.
"Where the judgment on appeal hy the defendant from a Justice’s Court to the District Court was for a less amount than that of the justice, the defendant recovered the costs of the District Court — the word “appellant.” which occurred in the statute, (Hart. Dig., art. 710,) being construed to mean “ appellee."
Error from Colorado. The plaintiff in error recovered judgment against the defendants in error in the District Court, in a case brought into that court by the latter by appeal from Hie judgment of a justice of the peace before the adoption of the State Constitution. The judgment in the District Court was for a less amount than that recovered before the justice, and the court adjudged the costs of the District Court against the plaintiff.

Opinion:
Wheeler, J.
The appeal from the judgment of the justice was taken be- j fore the adoption of the State Constitution. The case, therefore, is not within I the decision in Titus v. Latimer, but is governed by that in Sasse v. Schmidt, (6 Tex. R.)
The costs of the District Court were rightly awarded against the plaintiff and appellee in that court, under the provision of the 58th section of the act of 1840. (Hart. Dig., art. 716.) To make sense of the section the word "appellant," which occurs in it, must be read "appellee," as it evidently was intended; otherwise the former and latter parts of the section would bo repugnant. The judgment is in accordance with the evident meaning and intention of the statute, and it is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.