Foster v. Wells
Texas Supreme Court
Error from "Walker. This suit originated before a justice of the peace. It appears from the transcript sent up with the original xiapers by the justice before whom it was tried to tlie District Court that tlie suit was brought for a debt due “on an acknowledged order under a justice’s jurisdiction.”
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Error from "Walker. This suit originated before a justice of the peace. It appears from the transcript sent up with the original xiapers by the justice before whom it was tried to tlie District Court that tlie suit was brought for a debt due “on an acknowledged order under a justice’s jurisdiction.” The in-dorsement ou the summons of the canse, of action is in the following words, i. c.: “This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendant tlie “balance of an order for two months’ work, amounting to seventeen dollars, “in favor or Harrison Wells.” There was a plea of a former…
1Opinion of the CourtElPSCOMR, J.
Wo will first proceed to discuss the effect of a judgment on the pul-ties to it, in relation to the subject-matter adjudicated and embraced in the judgment; and the following quotation, from high authority, is believed to be very appropriate on this subject:
“With respect to judgments, properly so called — i. e., those solemn decisions of courts of justice, made in the exercise of their rightful jurisdiction, after giving- the parties an opportunity to be heard, and upon due deliberation — the law, proceeding upon the maxim that interest Meipvblicce vt sit finis litium, will regard them as…
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