Wells v. Littlefield
Texas Supreme Court
Geo. W. Littlefield sued Wells for cattle and procured their seizure under writ of sequestration. Littlefield replevied the property.
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Geo. W. Littlefield sued Wells for cattle and procured their seizure under writ of sequestration. Littlefield replevied the property. On the trial judgment was rendered for plaintiff for the property, which on appeal was reversed on June 5, 1883, and the cause remanded, with directions to the court below to enter such judgment in favor of the then appellant, Wells, as under the law announced in the opinion he was entitled to on the former trial, and to allow him such recovery as he had a right to in the state of the record below had the decision there been in his favor upon the trial of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
The return of the Hon. W. A. Blackburn, judge of the seventeenth judicial district, to the alternative mandamus heretofore issued in this cause, does not controvert the jurisdiction of this court as exercised in the issuance of the writ. Counsel for the respondent have, however, in argument, questioned that jurisdiction, and to this point we give our first attention.
The jurisdiction exercised in issuing the writ of mandamus is either original or appellate. High, on Ex. Leg. Rem., § 27.
Under our constitution the supreme court has appellate jurisdiction only, and issues…
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