Globe Loan Co. v. Betancourt

Court of Appeals of Texas

Globe Loan Co. v. Betancourt

171 S.W. 308, 1914 Tex. App. LEXIS 903

CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas

DecidedDecember 5, 1914

DocketNo. 5398.

StatusPublished

Cited by3 cases

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Globe Loan Co. v. Betancourt, 171 S.W. 308, 1914 Tex. App. LEXIS 903 (Tex. Ct. App. 1914).

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Opinion

FLY, C. J.

This is a suit for double the

alleged amount of usurious interest paid by appellee to appellant, which in the justice’s *309 court was placed at $104. The cause was tried by the justice of the peace, and judgment rendered in favor of appellee for $76. The cause was appealed by appellant to the county court. During the trial in .the county court, appellee filed an amendment, in wbicb the amount claimed was reduced to"$76, and the jury found in favor of appellee for that amount.

By the amendment in the county court the amount in controversy was reduced from $104 to $76, a sum from which an appeal could not he prosecuted to this court. Bishop v. Lawson, 47 Tex. Civ. App. 646, 105 S. W. 1008.

The appeal is dismissed.

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