Kirvin v. Kaufman County Levee Improvement Dist. No. 13

BOND, Chief Justice.

This is an attempted appeal by writ of error on a judgment entered in the District Court of Kaufman County, in favor of defendant in error, Kaufman County Levee Improvement District No. 13. The petition for the writ and the bond were filed in the court below on November 7, 1939, and citation in error was issued and served on defendant in error on February 21, 1940.

In May, 1939, the Legislature enacted a statute, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. Art. 2249a, taking away the right of appeal by writ of error of participants in the actual trial of a cause in the court below. The act became…