58 S.W.2d 1061 | Tex. App. | 1933
It is a further rule that the absence of such allegation of value will render the petition subject to a general demurrer. Williams v. Givins (Tex.Civ.App.)
In this case the plaintiff sued out a writ of sequestration to impound the machine and in the affidavit for the writ the value of the property was alleged to be $257. That affidavit was filed on the same day plaintiffs' first amended petition was filed, but there was no sequestration sued out on plaintiffs' original petition theretofore filed. Appellee insists that the lack of jurisdictional allegation of value of the machine in the amended petition was cured by the affidavit of value filed for the sequestration writ. The decision in Dubois v. Walters,
Furthermore, the affidavit necessary to the issuance of a writ of sequestration is presented to the clerk of the court, whose duty it is, under the statutes and without action thereon by the court, to issue the writ if the application is in statutory form, accompanied by a bond to be approved by the clerk in the amount required by the statutes; and, if the allegation of value in the affidavit for sequestration can be looked to to show jurisdiction to determine the merits of plaintiff's suit for foreclosure of a chattel mortgage when the petition fails to embody an allegation of value, then such jurisdiction would be lost if the writ should be quashed for lack of a proper application therefor, or should be voluntarily released by the plaintiff before trial. 11 Texas Jurisprudence, pp. 741-745, and p. 761, par. 42.
Accordingly, the judgment of the trial court is reversed for lack of a showing of jurisdiction in plaintiff's petition upon which the suit was tried, and the cause is remanded without the necessity of a determination of other assignments presented in appellant's brief.