Orr v. Rhine
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Fannin. Tried below before the Hon.. John C. Easton. This was a suit brought hy appellee in the court of the presiding justice of Fannin county, under the act of May 26, 1873, (Sess. Acts, 95,) entitled “An act to confer additional jurisdiction on the presiding justices of the peace of Lamar and Fannin counties, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers of said courts.”
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Error from Fannin. Tried below before the Hon.. John C. Easton. This was a suit brought hy appellee in the court of the presiding justice of Fannin county, under the act of May 26, 1873, (Sess. Acts, 95,) entitled “An act to confer additional jurisdiction on the presiding justices of the peace of Lamar and Fannin counties, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers of said courts.” Judgment was rendered in said court against the appellants for the sum of $742.32, from which they appealed to the District Court; and they not appearing, judgment was rendered in the latter court by…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The only question presented for our determination by this record is, whether the act of May 26,1873, (Sess. Acts, 95,) entitled “An act to confer additional jurisdiction on the presiding justices of the peace in Lamar and Fannin counties, and to prescribe the powers' and duties of the officers of said courts,” is constitutional.
The plaintiffs in error maintain that the design of this bill was to create .a special and local court in said counties of Lamar and Fannin, which, as they insist, the Legislature has not .constitutional authority to do; because, first, the…
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