City of San Antonio v. Jones
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Guadaloupe. The ease was tried, before Hon. A. W. Terrell, one of the district judges. San Antonio has a history extending through various bloody revolutions as well as a judicial history. According to Mr. Justice Lipscomb, in the case of Lewis v. San Antonio, 7 Tex., 250, it was founded in the year 1717, by Spaniards, who came from the Canary Islands.
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Appeal from Guadaloupe. The ease was tried, before Hon. A. W. Terrell, one of the district judges. San Antonio has a history extending through various bloody revolutions as well as a judicial history. According to Mr. Justice Lipscomb, in the case of Lewis v. San Antonio, 7 Tex., 250, it was founded in the year 1717, by Spaniards, who came from the Canary Islands. These inhabitants established missions, civilized the Indians, and laid out a city, which became the centre of empire in Texas. To this city the king of Spain gave a charter and a grant of lands, called exidos. These lands, as will…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
—The delay in transmitting the papers to the District Court of Guadaloupe county, in obedience to the order changing the venue, is satisfactorily explained by the affidavit of appellee’s counsel.
The motion is of a character which addresses itself mainly to the discretion of the judge to whom it is presented. Unless it is apparent that injustice has been done the appellant by the district court in the exercise of this discretion, or some legal principle has been violated, this court does not feel called upon to reverse the judgment, although a different conclusion, upon the facts presented in…
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