4 Willson 461 | Tex. App. | 1891
Opinion by
§ 266. Certiorari; petition for writ of, held sufficient. This cause of action was instituted by appellant in the justice court to recover a bale of cotton, where appellee recovered judgment therefor. Appellant filed his petition for a writ of certiorari, and it was, on motion of appellee, dismissed from the county court. Various errors were assigned to the action of the court in sustaining said motion. We will not discuss the assigned errors in detail. The petition alleged substantially that, upon the trial before the justice of the peace for the recovery of the bale of cotton involved, appellant, who was the plaintiff in that court, proved by testimony alleged to be true, that he had had ginned at the gin-house of one D. D. Burleson, a bale of cotton which was raised by himself on his farm; that he was present, and packed and branded the bale, took possession thereof, and rolled it out to a particular place in the gin yard; and that while said bale was at this place, appellee took charge of and carried away this said bale of cotton without his (appellant’s) consent, and that the justice refused to give judgment for him upon the sole ground that, as a question of law, he was not entitled to recover, not for want of sufficient evidence to establish his right to the
Reversed and remanded.