Frazier v. Coombs
Frazier v. Coombs
Opinion of the Court
This suit originated in the justice’s court, where a judgment was rendered against appellant, in his absence, for the sum of $200. Appellant obtained a writ of certiorari to the county court, where it was dismissed on motion of appellee, and from that order of dismissal this appeal has been prosecuted.
The application for certiorari showed that appellant lived in Refugio county; that hi; was sued by appellee in the justice’s court of precinct No. 3 in Dimmit county on an un-liquidated demand for $200; that appellant filed a plea of privilege, and the case was set down for hearing on November 8, 1920, and in the absence of appellant the plea of privilege was overruled, and judgment rendered against appellant for $200; that appellant lives a long distance from a railroad, and the justice’s court was held in a small village quite a distance from a railroad; that he employed an attorney to attend the court and represent him in the trial of the case, but the attorney failed to make railway connections and did not reach the court. The allegations show that appellant had sold appel-lee a .secondhand automobile, and appellee based her claim on charges that appellant had by misrepresentation and fraud sold her a worthless car. Appellant expected to show that he had made no misrepresentations as to the car, but had in writing given her a truthful statement as to the age and condition of the car and had driven it from Bay-side, in Refugio county, to Bermuda, in Dim-mit county, and delivered it to appellee, and she was given every opportunity to examine the car, and that she did in fact personally examine the car and had it examined by experts, and the car was found by them to be as represented.
The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
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