Veramendi v. Hutchins
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Colorado. Tried below before the Hon. Everett Lewis. A full report of this case will be found in 48 Tex., 531, when it was before the court on a former appeal. The .case was then reversed and remanded.
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Appeal from Colorado. Tried below before the Hon. Everett Lewis. A full report of this case will be found in 48 Tex., 531, when it was before the court on a former appeal. The .case was then reversed and remanded. There was no change .in the pleadings after the case was remanded, except that Veramendi and other plaintiffs demurred specially to Hutchins and other defendants’ answer setting up limitation, on the ground that the land claimed by them was not sufficiently described by metes and bounds as to each defendant;, which demurrers were overruled and the appellants save the point by bill…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.—
According to the act then in force, the district judge was required to appoint three intelligent citizens as jury commissioners, having the qualifications prescribed in the act for jurors, to be residents in different portions of the county, freeholders therein, able to read and write, and who had no suit in the district court of such county which required the intervention of a jury. General Laws 1876, p. 79, sec. 4.
There was no suit pending in the district court of Colorado county at the time of the appointment of the jury commissioners to which-either of them were…
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