Rogers v. Watrous
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Galveston. The defendant in error filed his petition in the District Court of Harris county on the 30th day of August, 1848, to enjoin the collection of a judgment recovered against him by the plaintiff in error in that court.
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Error from Galveston. The defendant in error filed his petition in the District Court of Harris county on the 30th day of August, 1848, to enjoin the collection of a judgment recovered against him by the plaintiff in error in that court. At (lie Fall Term, 1850, on motion of the attorney for the defendant in the injunction suggesting that the judge of that district was interested, having been of counsel iu the cause, the court awarded a change of venue to the county of Galveston; and the case was accordingly transferred to and placed upon the * docket of the court in the latter county. * But…
1Opinion of the CourtWiikelisR, J.
The change of venue was awarded under the provision of an act of (he Congress of the Republic, passed in 1843, (Hart. Dig., art. 637,) which provides "that hereafter it shall be the duty of any one of the district *33Judges of the Republic of Texas to change the venue upon the motion of any practicing attorney, in any case in which said judge may be interested, from tlie county in which he may be presiding to the nearest adjoining comity out of his district.”
Note 15. — Lovett v. Casey, 17 T., 59Í; Cain v. The State, 20 T., 355; ex parte Valasques, 20 T-17S; Selmati v. Wotie, 27 T., 6S.
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