White v. City of San Antonio
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. White sued the city and had judgment. On appeal by defendant this was reversed and the case remanded. Appellant then obtained writ of error on the ground that the ruling practically settled the case..
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought by the plaintiff in error to recover of the city of San Antonio for the acts of its mayor and health officer in taking possession of the plaintiff’s hotel and in placing and detaining therein certain persons suspected of having been exposed to the infection of yellow fever. Upon the trial he obtained a verdict and judgment in his favor, from which the city appealed. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed the judgment and remanded the cause. Thereupon the plaintiff applied for and obtained a writ of error to the judgment of the appellate court upon the…
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