Taylor v. Buzan

Appellee, as plaintiff below, sued appellant, as defendant below, for wages at the rate of $125 per month for a period of eight months and five days, which plaintiff alleged to be the reasonable value of the services he performed for defendant. Thus the amount in controversy was alleged to be $l,02O.S0, which was beyond the jurisdiction of the county court, in which the action was brought. At the close of the testimony, plaintiff, with leave of the court, but over the objections of defendant, filed a trial amendment, in which he adopted his “said first amended original petition herein filed,…