Doan v. Star Hardware & Furniture Co.

ELY, C. J. The Star Hardware Company sued T. L. Doan in the county court of San Patricio county on a promissory note for $301.50, and sought a foreclosure of a chattel mortgage to secure the note on one two-row John Deere cultivator, one two-row John Deere planter, one brown mare, one sorrel mare, and one bay mare; -the first mares being 15 hands high and each weighing 1,000 pounds, the bay mare being 16 hands high and weighing 1,200 pounds. No value was given of the property on which the foreclosure was sought. In justice and county courts the value of the property sought to be subjected to a lien must be given in order to determine jurisdiction. Winerich Motor Sales Co. v. Henry Gombert et al., 293 S. W. 1113, by this court. There are numerous authorities to the same effect. Jurisdiction not being shown in the ' county court, this court has no jurisdiction. The appeal is dismissed.