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32 Tex. 212

Carter v. Griffin

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1869

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1869-07-01

Error from Dallas. Tried, below before the Hon. A. B. Horton.

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Decided 1869-07-01

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Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1937

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Morrill, C. J.

¶1This was a petition for injunction, filed In 1868, upon a judgment rendered in a Justices’ Court in 1860, because there was no service.

¶2As 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.

¶3The 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.

¶4It 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.)

¶5But 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.

¶6Judgment affirmed.

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