Moore v. Jordan

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was originally brought by appellant against appellee in a justice’s court to recover a bal*395anee of thirty-five dollars, alleged to be due on a promissory note and to enforce the lien of a chattel mortgage, executed to secure the debt. A judgment having been rendered against the defendants in the justice’s court, an appeal was taken to the county court and the cause thereupon transferred to the district court by reason of the disqualification of the county judge. The defendants having obtained a judgment in the district court after a trial upon the merits,…