Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Lowery

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided January 23, 1975No. 7670Published

1Opinion of the Court

518 S.W.2d 897 (1975)

Ex parte Herbert LOWERY.

No. 7670.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

January 23, 1975.

Ralph Zeleskey, Lufkin, for relator.

Earl B. Stover, Silsbee, for Judge Smith.

KEITH, Justice.

Our original jurisdiction has been invoked under the provisions of Vernon's Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1824a (Supp. 1974-1975), after Relator was found in contempt of court for refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him in a hearing involving children mentioned in an earlier divorce decree. The only question presented by our record is that involving the jurisdiction of the trial…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Maness v. MeyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. State v. Mauritz-Wells Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1943
  3. National Life Co. v. RiceTexas Supreme Court · 1943
  4. Withers v. PattersonTexas Supreme Court · 1864
  5. Bridgman v. MooreTexas Supreme Court · 1944

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