Zwernemann v. Loving

McClendon, chief justice.

This suit was brought in the justice court and appealed by the plaintiff to the county court without giving an appeal bond. On which account the appeal was dismissed. The instant appeal is from this judgment, the question presented being whether the facts bring the case within the decision in Houston & T. C. Ry. Co. v. Red Cross Stock Farms, 91 Tex. 628, 45 S.W. 375, to the effect that where plaintiff recovers nothing in the justice court, and recovery against him is only for costs, he may appeal to the county court without giving the statutory appeal bond.

Briefly the…