Universal Life Ins. Co. v. Cook

RICE, Chief Justice.

The question of law presented by this record involves the validity of a nunc pro tunc judgment rendered by the County Court of McLennan County against the appellant Insurance Company and in favor of plaintiff.

A jury trial was had on October 18, 1944; the special issues submitted, answered favorably to appellee, were received and filed on the same day. Within two days thereafter appellant filed its motion for new trial. The term of court expired on November 4, 1944, and on that date the court, made and entered an order expressly overruling appellant’s motion for new trial,…