Legal Opinion

Post v. State

Texas Supreme Court

Decided December 16, 1914No. 2725, Application No. 9056PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Third District, in an appeal from Travis County. The State brought suit against Post, and appealed from a judgment for defendant. Post obtained a writ of error on the reversal of this and rendition of judgment against him by the appellate court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips

• The suit was a controversy between the State and the plaintiff in error, Post, over certain lands held by the latter, claimed by the State to be vacant and sought by it to be recovered. The trial resulted in a judgment in Post’s favor. On the appeal the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals affirmed this judgment on the original hearing, but on motion for rehearing reversed it, and rendered judgment for the State for all of the land. 169 S. W., 401. With the State contending that the land was not included in the several surveys owned by Post as determined by their original field notes, a…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Choate v. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1898
  2. State v. PostCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1913

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Lone Star Gas Co. v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1941
  2. Oats v. Dublin National BankTexas Supreme Court · 1936
  3. United Gas Public Service Co. v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  4. Lone Star Gas Co. v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  5. Halliburton v. Texas Indemnity InsuranceTexas Supreme Court · 1948

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