Davis v. Morris

CONNER, Chief Justice.

— This suit was instituted by appellees in a Justice’s Court of Briscoe County, where, without written pleadings of either party, they recovered a judgment against appellant, from which he duly appealed to the County Court,, a like judgment against him being there rendered.

In the County Court appellant sought to present a written plea containing the general denial and certain facts urged as an estoppel. This the court refused to permit, and also further refused to permit appellant to so plead orally, and for want of pleadings on his part peremptorily instructed the jury…