Legal Opinion

Thames v. Chitwood

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided November 17, 1900Published

Appeal from the County Court of Bosque. Tried below before Hon. H. C. Cooke.

1Opinion of the Court

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellee recovered judgment against appellant in the Justice Court for .the sum of $68.61, with interest and costs, from which an appeal was taken in forma pauperis to the County Court, where it was dismissed on motion of appellee, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted. The grounds of the motion to dismiss the appeal were these:

“1. Because the appellant, T. T. Thames, has given no appeal bond, nor has he filed any legal affidavit in lieu thereof in this: the affidavit filed herein in lieu of an appeal bond was not sworn to either before the county judge nor…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Graves v. HornTexas Supreme Court · 1895
  2. Jenks v. JenksTexas Supreme Court · 1877

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