King v. Sapp
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. James I. Perkins. This was an action for the trial of the right of property to certain goods valued at $800, levied upon by virtue of a writ of attachment issued out of the district court of Nacogdoches county on November 28, 1883, and levied on a part of the stock of goods in a certain house known as the Old Stone Fort, as the property of B. Cole, the writ being in favor of appellants and against B. Cole.
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Appeal from Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. James I. Perkins. This was an action for the trial of the right of property to certain goods valued at $800, levied upon by virtue of a writ of attachment issued out of the district court of Nacogdoches county on November 28, 1883, and levied on a part of the stock of goods in a certain house known as the Old Stone Fort, as the property of B. Cole, the writ being in favor of appellants and against B. Cole. Appellee filed his affidavit and claim bond on December 4, 1883, and claimed title by purchase from Cole. Plaintiffs alleged that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
The appellant contends that the district judge who tried this cause below was disqualified to hear and determine it, because he had been of counsel in causes between the defendant below and other plaintiffs, growing out of the same transaction as *520that from which the present suit originated, and involving the same questions that arose in it for decision.
The judge had never been of counsel in this cause; and, if disqualified to sit therein, it must have been because the fact that he was, at one time, of counsel in the other cases, gave him an interest in the present suit.
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