pFrom 1983 to 1987, author Mark Dunn worked as a court clerk for a justice of the peace in Travis County, Texas, where, he says, I learned more about human nature . . . than I could have learned in any other job I might have taken up as a bushy-tailed kid from Tennessee. Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, iTexas People's Courti promises to take readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating.ppHere in the Texas justice court, wrongs can be righted and lives changed in profound ways. A priceless family necklace might finally be restored to the rightful owner an occupational driver's license fortuitously granted. A death inquest may become an opportunity for family reflection and valediction, with the attending judge as sympathetic witness.ppIn each of its chapters, iTexas People's Courti takes up a different aspec