Outlaw v. Gulf Oil Corp.

On Rehearing.

In the first paragraph of the motion for rehearing defendants in error suggest that there is no jurisdiction to pass upon this appeal. This contention has not been heretofore urged and is based upon an Act of the Forty-Sixth Legislature, known as Senate Bill No. 69, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 1883a. It is deemed unnecessary to encumber this opinion by copying the provisions of that Act. Suffice it to say that by its terms it went into effect on the 1st day of January, 1940. Section 1 thereof provides: “No party who participates either in person or by his attorney in the actual…