Cozby v. Clifton

This is an original proceeding in the Court of Civil Appeals and is before this court upon the motion for leave to file the attached petition for mandamus, by which Grace Cozby, who was the plaintiff in the County Court at Law of Tarrant County, seeks to have Judge Drew S. Clifton compelled to enter a judgment upon a verdict returned by a jury in .said court on date of December 2, 1953.

It appears that the verdict of the jury was returned into open court on December 2, 1953, and because of certain statements made by the foreman of the jury to the Judge of the court he was of the opinion that…