Brazoria County v. Calhoun

Willie, Chief Justice.—

Only one question is raised by the assignment of errors, viz.: Does an appeal lie from a justice’s court where the judgment rendered by the justice is for less than $20, but the matter in controversy is over that amount? The sixteenth section of the fifth article of our constitution gives the county • court appellate jurisdiction in civil cases, of which justices’ courts -have original jurisdiction, when the judgment of the court appealed from shall exceed $20, exclusive of costs, and in no others. Art. 1165 of the Revised Statutes provides that the county court shall…