Bilby v. Hancock

SPEER, Associate Justice.

— W. S. Hancock, a resident of Kent County, instituted this suit against John S. Bilby, a nonresident of this State, to recovery certain tracts of land situated in Kent County, and from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff the defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

On October 6, 1908, the same being appearance day, the defendant Bilby presented to the judge of the District Court his petition and bond for the removal of the cause to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. To this petition the trial court sustained a number of…