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7 Tex. 583

Nelson v. Strahan

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1852

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1852-07-01

Error from Colorado. The plaintiff in error recovered judgment against the defendants in error in the District Court, in a case brought into that court by the latter by appeal from Hie judgment of a justice of the peace before the adoption of the State Constitution. The judgment in the District Court was for a less amount than that recovered before the justice, and the court adjudged the costs of the District Court against the plaintiff.

Decided 1852-07-01

Wheeler, J.

¶1The appeal from the judgment of the justice was taken be- j fore the adoption of the State Constitution. The case, therefore, is not within I the decision in Titus v. Latimer, but is governed by that in Sasse v. Schmidt, (6 Tex. R.)

¶2The costs of the District Court were rightly awarded against the plaintiff and appellee in that court, under the provision of the 58th section of the act of 1840. (Hart. Dig., art. 716.) To make sense of the section the word “appellant,” which occurs in it, must be read “appellee,” as it evidently was intended; otherwise the former and latter parts of the section would bo repugnant. The judgment is in accordance with the evident meaning and intention of the statute, and it is affirmed.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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