Walea v. McLean

Hemphill, Ch. J.

The appellees move that this cáse be stricken from the docket on the ground that it was filed irregularly and without the authority of law.

The judgment below was entered at the Fall Term of the District Court, in 1852. The appeal was perfected by the execution and approval of the appeal bond on the twenty-fifth of November, 1852. The appeal was consequently returnable at the Term of the Supreme Court which commenced at Galveston in January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. The record was not filed until the fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, some time after…