Carter v. Griffin

Texas Supreme Court
Carter v. Griffin, 32 Tex. 212 (Tex. 1869)
Morrill

Carter v. Griffin

Opinion of the Court

Morrill, C. J.

This was a petition for injunction, filed In 1868, upon a judgment rendered in a Justices’ Court in 1860, because there was no service.

As the petition does not negative the appearance and waiver of service of defendant in the Justice’s Court, and as it appears affirmatively that the defendant caused the judgment to be stayed in the Justice’s Court, and as it is not averred that injustice has been done, the presumptions are in favor of the correctness of the judgment of the Justice’s Court.

The plaintiff excepts to the judgment of the District Court, whereby the injunction was dismissed on motion, because the answer was not supported by the oath of defendant.

It is true that the statute requires all petitions for and answers to injunctions to be verified by the affidavit of thparty filing the same. (P. Dig., Art. 3929.)

But as the case went off upon motion of defendant, and did not require any answer,- the requirements of the statute were not applicable to the case.

Judgment affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
A. W. Carter and another v. E. H. H. Griffin
Cited By
12 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
1— Where an injunction of a justice’s judgment was sought on the ground that the judgment was rendered without service of process on the petitioner, but the petition does not negative his appearance or waiver of service, and it is apparent of record that he caused the judgment to be stayed, and it is not averred that injustice has been done him, the presumption is in favor of the judgment of the Justice’s Court, and there was no error in dissolving the injunction on motion. 2— Though an answer to a petition for injunction must be verified by the oath of the party filing it, yet when the petition was dissolved on motion for insufficiency, it is immaterial that an unsworn answer, or no answer at all, was filed.