Garza v. Baker
Texas Supreme Court
Application for mandamus. From Bexar county. This was an application to the supreme court for mandmnus, in which it was stated that Leonardo, Garza, as plaintiff, on the 12th of December, 1882, recovered in the district court of Bexar county a judgment against the applicants for the restitution of certain premises, and for $250 damages; that on the 14th of December, 1882, the plaintiff filed a written motion to reform the judgment (unnecessary to be here explained), and…
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Application for mandamus. From Bexar county. This was an application to the supreme court for mandmnus, in which it was stated that Leonardo, Garza, as plaintiff, on the 12th of December, 1882, recovered in the district court of Bexar county a judgment against the applicants for the restitution of certain premises, and for $250 damages; that on the 14th of December, 1882, the plaintiff filed a written motion to reform the judgment (unnecessary to be here explained), and which was overruled; that plaintiff thereupon gave notice of appeal from that portion of the judgment which related to…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
This court has no appellate jurisdiction except where the district court has rendered a judgment, final in its character, disposing of the subject matter of the controversy.
So long as the judgment of that court remains' under its control, and subject to be altered or set aside by it, it is not in its nature that character of final judgment which can be made the subject of direct revision by this court. R. S., art. 1380; Const., art. V, sec. 3.
The appellate jurisdiction of this court cannot, in the nature of things, attach until the judgment sought to be passed under…
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