Legal Opinion
Finley v. Finley
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided December 1, 1966No. 254PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal by writ of error from a judgment of dismissal. Appellant, Leon Finley, filed suit in the court below for a bill of review, seeking to review a judgment of partition which had theretofore been entered by the trial court on January 19, 1965. When the matter came on for trial, appellant failed to appear and as a result the trial court entered judgment against him dismissing his suit for the want of prosecution, reciting as follows:
“ON THIS THE 16th day of August, 1965, came on to be heard the petition on Bill of Review filed herein by Defendant, Leon…
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