Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Bland

KEY, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the County Court dismissing an appeal from a justice of the peace court. The original papers and an unauthenticated transcript of the proceedings in the justice’s court were filed in the County Court on November 22, 1907. When the case was reached and called for trial at the next term of the County Court it was discovered that the transcript from the justice’s court was not certified by the justice of the peace. The defendant suggested the defect and made application for a writ of certiorari to the justice of the peace, requiring him…