Case Name: William B. Pillow et al. v. Jacob Eliot et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1860-10
Citations: 25 Supp. Tex. 322
Docket Number: 
Parties: William B. Pillow et al. v. Jacob Eliot et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 25 Supp.
Pages: 322–323

Head Matter:
William B. Pillow et al. v. Jacob Eliot et al.
Where the defendant plead a former recovery, and the record produced showéd that the plaintiff had been non-suited, the judgment was no bar to the action.
Error from ¡Navarro. The ease was tried before Hon. John GHtEGU, one of the district judges.
Eliot & Love sued Pillow and others on promissory notes. The defense was, that the same plaintiffs had sued the same defendants before a justice of the peace, and the judgment had been rendered in favor of the defendants. The court disregarded the plea, and rendered judgment for the plaintiff. The record of the justice showed that in the suit before him the plaintiff had been non-suited. .
G. M. Winlder, for' plaintiff
in error, relied upon Foster v. Wells, 1 Tex., 101; Hassell v. Nutt, 14 Tex., 260.

Opinion:
Wheeler, C. J.
—The several judgments of the justice, which were pleaded by the defendants, manifestly were not adjudications upon the merits of the cause; but were, as they purport, judgments of non-suit, and consequently were not pleadable in bar of the action.
Judgment affirmed with damages.