Globe Loan Co. v. Betancourt

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas
Globe Loan Co. v. Betancourt, 171 S.W. 308 (1914)
1914 Tex. App. LEXIS 903
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Globe Loan Co. v. Betancourt

Opinion of the Court

FLY, C. J.

This is a suit for double the

alleged amount of usurious interest paid by appellee to appellant, which in the justice’s *309 court was placed at $104. The cause was tried by the justice of the peace, and judgment rendered in favor of appellee for $76. The cause was appealed by appellant to the county court. During the trial in .the county court, appellee filed an amendment, in wbicb the amount claimed was reduced to"$76, and the jury found in favor of appellee for that amount.

By the amendment in the county court the amount in controversy was reduced from $104 to $76, a sum from which an appeal could not he prosecuted to this court. Bishop v. Lawson, 47 Tex. Civ. App. 646, 105 S. W. 1008.

The appeal is dismissed.

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Globe Loan Co. v. Betancourt.
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