Loftin v. Nalley
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Falls. The case was tried before Hon. John Gregg, one of the district judges. The facts are shown in the opinion of the court. The proceeding was a motion of the appellee, in the Supreme Court, to affirm, without reference to the merits, under the 7th section, of the act of 1850, further regulating proceedings in the Supreme Court. (Paschal’s Dig., Art. 1589, Note 616.) The question was upon the sufficiency of the certificate.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
—The appellees present the certificate of the clerk of the District .Court of Falls county, and suggest that they obtained judgment against appellant on the 31st March, 1860, and he appealed to this court, and having failed to file a transcript of the record, as the law prescribes, they move the court to affirm the judgment, without reference to the merits.
Appeals are perfected so as to give this court jurisdiction—first, by notice of appeal entered of record; and, secondly, by giving the appeal bond within twenty days after the adjournment of the court, in cases where bond is not dispensed…
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