Court Opinion

ID: 9834445
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:36:09.058531+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:15.554841
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION EOR REHEARING.
The tenant was a proper party to the suit, and it was not error to ■ require that he be made a party.
At the time that Peck took possession of the furniture the house was. *44not in possession of J. H. Cain. The rent had been paid for one .month in advance, and the month had not expired, and the landlord had :no right to sue for any trespass on the place not involving permanent injury to the property. Reynolds v. Williams, 1 Texas, 311; Railway v. Smith, 3 Texas Civ. App., 483. No injury to the house was established, and Cain was not entitled to recover for even nominal damages for the bare trespass in entering the house.
The motion is overruled.

Overruled.

Writ of error refused.