McDannell & Co. v. Cherry
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Caldwell. Tried below before the Hon.. L. W. Moore. The opinion sets forth the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
The original petition filed in this causé alleged the property sued for to be of the value of $250. A de*178murrer to this petition objecting to the jurisdiction of the district court having been sustained, a trial amendment was filed alleging that through inadvertence the value of the property sued for was stated in the original petition to be $250, when in fact it was then, as well as at the date of filing the trial amendment, worth $1,000. The court below held that this amendment did not cure the defect in the original petition so as to give the court jurisdiction, and…
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