Cariker v. Dill
Cariker v. Dill
Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal from an order of the district court, dissolving a temporary injunction. The substance of plaintiffs’ case, as set out in their petition, is that J. H. Dill procured a judgment in the justice court against the B. & K. Dumber Company, on September 3, 1908, for $111.34, from which judgment the defendant lumber company appealed to the county court, and on the 12th day of September filed its appeal bond, which was duly approved, with the justice of the peace; that thereafter, before the appeal was disposed of, Dill sued out a garnishment in the justice court, under subdivision 3 of article 217, R. S. 1895 (treating said judgment as a final judgment), against one Marshall, under which certain property alleged to belong to the lumber company in the hands of the garnishee was seized; that I thereupon, on March 30, 1909, the lumber company executed a replevy bond under the statute, with the plaintiff Cariker and Morris as sureties; that the appeal in the original case was dismissed on motion of Dill, the plaintiff in the judgment, on July 21, 1909, on the ground that the said lumber company had not filed in the county court the transcript and appeal bond from the justice-court, notwithstanding three terms of said court had elapsed; that thereafter, on January 6, 1910, the justice of the peace rendered judgment against the sureties on the re-plevy bond, being- the plaintiffs in the present-suit, upon which execution had been issued, and was about to be executed. It was alleged that the judgment had been rendered' against the sureties in the replevy bond, without making them parties to the suit, and without rendering judgment against the-principal. It was set out that this judgment was void for the several reasons stated, and; injunction was prayed for, to restrain its collection. The district judge granted a temporary injunction in chambers, returnable to the first day of the succeeding term of the district court in Nacogdoches county, where the proceedings referred to were had. Defendant Dill answered fully, pleading, among other matters, a general denial, and moving to dissolve. At this term a hearing was hart upon the pleadings and evidence introduced, which is embodied in a statement of facts in. the record. Upon the hearing, the district court sustained'the motion of defendant Dill to dissolve, from which this appeal is prosecuted, under the late act providing for and regulating such appeals. No assignment of errors was filed in the district court, and a motion was seasonably made to dismiss the appeal on that ground. The record leaves some doubt whether the case should be treated as an appeal from a final judgment, but we resolve the doubt in favor of appellant, and overrule the motion to dismiss.
So far as we can understand the statement of facts, which consists of copies of the proceedings in the justice court and county court, it was established that appellee procured judgment in the justice court against the B. & K. Dumber Co., as stated, on September 3, 1908; that the lumber company executed an appeal bond on September 12, 1908, which was duly approved and filed. This appeal bond, as appears from the statement of facts, was filed in the county court May 7, 1910, but appellee admits in his answer that it was filed on May 7, 1909. It was not shown that the transcript from the justice court was ever filed in the county court. Notice of appeal was issued out of the county court on May 8, 1909, and served on Dill May 20th. On July 21, 1909, Dill filed a motion in the county court to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that the county *845 court had no jurisdiction, for the reason, as stated, that the transcript from the justice court had not been filed until after three terms of the county court had elapsed. (Which was established to be true.) On July 23, 1909, the motion was sustained, and the appeal dismissed.
On March 12, 1909, Dill sued out a writ -of garnishment on the justice court judgment referred to against Marshall, garnishee, and ■on March 30, 1909, the B. & K. Lumber Company, defendant in the judgment, gave a replevy bond, under article 225, R. S. 1895, with A. J. Cariker and R. B. Morris as sureties, who are the plaintiffs in the injunction proceedings and appellants here. On January 6, 1910, the justice of the peace rendered judgment in the garnishment suit against Marshall, garnishee, and Cariker and Morris, sureties on the replevy bond, for the amount of the original judgment against the B. & K. Lumber Company. Execution was sued out on this judgment against Cariker and Morris, whereupon this injunction was •■sued out.
Affirmed.
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