Dulwebber v. Yuspeh

Appellant’s decedent filed an action against appellee in the court of a justice of the peace for the recovery of damages in the sum of two- hundred' dollars. The case was set for trial by agreement of the parties on a day of a regular term of the justice court, to wit, at 2 o’clock p. m., May 12, 1933. At that hour appellee, hereinafter to be called the defendant, and his attorney appeared and were ready for trial. The plaintiff in the action and his attorney had left their homes in ample time to reach the court at the hour mentioned, but because of a punctured automobile tire on the road,…