Holt v. Maverick
Texas Supreme Court
Application for Writ of Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. The litigation was as to ownership of a tract of 320 acres of land, survey 333, Kinney County, made and patented under bounty warrant number 3955, to John Wilkinson. The plaintiffs, who were appellants, claimed as heirs of one-John Wilkinson, who died in 1840 in Matagorda.
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Application for Writ of Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. The litigation was as to ownership of a tract of 320 acres of land, survey 333, Kinney County, made and patented under bounty warrant number 3955, to John Wilkinson. The plaintiffs, who were appellants, claimed as heirs of one-John Wilkinson, who died in 1840 in Matagorda. The defendant below and appellee claimed under a judgment, execution, and sheriff’s sale of another John Wilkinson, who was well known in San Antonio, and was living there in 1853, when the judgment was-rendered…
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
The judgment of the District Court was Teversed and the cause remanded, but it does not appear that the ruling necessarily determines the cause.
A question arose, however, in the Court of Civil Appeals as to the disqualification of one of the judges of that court, and he declined to sit.
Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to grant writ of error is claimed on the ground that the determination of the qualification of the judge involved the application and construction of the Constitution of this State.
That may be true, but the judge did not sit, and the validity of the…
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