Clements v. Roberts

This cause is now before us on complainants’ petition to rehear.

It is insisted by complainants that this court was without jurisdiction to hear and determine the cause; that the jurisdiction is in the court of civil appeals. This insistence is based on the fact that the cause is not either a contested election suit, an ejectment suit, or an equity suit seeking a money decree for more than one thousand dollars. Neither is it a suit involving State revenue, or the constitutionality of a State statute; that by the statute creating the court of civil appeals (chapter 82, Acts of 1907) that court…