Texas Tram & Lumber Co. v. Hightower
Texas Supreme Court
Original proceeding in Supreme Court for writ of mandamus to require a district judge to enter judgment on a verdict.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This is an original suit in which a writ of mandamus is prayed for to compel the judge of the Sixtieth Judicial District of the State to enter judgment upon a verdict alleged to have been returned into his court at the April term of the present year.
The facts as alleged in the petition for the writ, stated briefly, but as we think with sufficient fullness for the purposes of this opinion, are as follows: In the year 1901 the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, a defendant herein, brought an action of trespass to try title in the District Court of Jefferson County…
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