Legal Opinion

Rouff v. Boyd

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided March 15, 1929No. Motion No. 9328PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtPleasants, C. J.

This is a suit brought for mandamus by Melvin Rouff, Joseph F. Meyer, Jr., -and May Bering Fox Woods, independent executors of the will of Henry S. Fox, Jr., deceased, to compel respondent, Ewing Boyd, .district judge for the Fifty-Fifth judicial district, to proceed to trial and" judgment in cause No. 125430 on the doclret of the Fifty-Fifth judicial district court of Harris county, styled Washington & Lee University v. Melvin Rouff et ah, Executors, in which cause the petitioners herein are the defendants.

The petition for madamus alleges:

“I. That the Washington & Lee University filed suit…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Camoron v. ThurmondTexas Supreme Court · 1881
  2. Lloyd v. BrinckTexas Supreme Court · 1872
  3. W.D. Yett, Mayor v. CookTexas Supreme Court · 1926
  4. March v. HuyterTexas Supreme Court · 1878
  5. Yett v. CookTexas Supreme Court · 1925

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Fulton v. FinchTexas Supreme Court · 1961
  2. Ex Parte LoweryCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1975
  3. Commissioners' Court of Harris County v. KaiserCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1929
  4. Shaw & Estes v. Texas Consolidated OilsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1957
  5. Jones v. BassTexas Commission of Appeals · 1932

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