Nichols v. Snow

Citations

• 42 Tex. 72

Syllabus

<p>1. Practice.—In proceedings for injunction, the plaintiff cannot open up a judgment rendered more than two years previous by setting up a new cause of action.</p> <p>2. Jurisdiction.—The act organizing the County Courts limited their jurisdiction, as to the amount in controversy, to sums not exceeding five hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, (Pas. Dig., art. 6068;) and where three separate suits had been commenced between the same parties, each for less than five hundred dollars, and the counter claims for payments having been referred to arbitrators, who found $885.21 remaining due on the three suits : Held, no error to divide the finding in three sums, and enter thereon judgment in each ease, the parties consenting thereto.</p>