Womack v. Womack
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Harrison. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Morris. The Court commenced in Harrison under the former law, on the 24th December, 1855, at which Term the judgment in this case was rendered. The Act of December 18th, 1855, was entitled “An Act to change the sixth and ninth Judicial Districts of the State of Texas, and to define the time of holding Courts therein.”
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Error from Harrison. Tried before the Hon. W. W. Morris. The Court commenced in Harrison under the former law, on the 24th December, 1855, at which Term the judgment in this case was rendered. The Act of December 18th, 1855, was entitled “An Act to change the sixth and ninth Judicial Districts of the State of Texas, and to define the time of holding Courts therein.” On the 14th of January, 1856, a supplemental Act was passed, declaring that the original Act should not be so construed as to prevent the Judge from holding the Fall Terms of the District Court for 1855 in the counties of Panola…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
The only question presented for the consideration of the Court, in this case, is whether the Court below, in which the judgment was rendered, was held at a time authorized by law for holding the same. By the first Section of an Act of the Legislature, approved 18th Dec., 1855, the counties of Wood, Upshur, Harrison and Rusk compose the Sixth Judicial District. The second Section directs that the Courts shall commence in the county of Wood on the first Monday in February and August, and be held in Harrison on the fourth Monday thereafter. The fifth Section is in the following words; i. e.: “…
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