Chambers v. Hodges
Texas Supreme Court
— Error from Liberty County. The transcript of the record in this case was filed with the clerk of the supreme court on the 11th January, 1844. On the 14th of April, 1847, the judgment of the court below was affirmed, with ten per cent, damages.
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— Error from Liberty County. The transcript of the record in this case was filed with the clerk of the supreme court on the 11th January, 1844. On the 14th of April, 1847, the judgment of the court below was affirmed, with ten per cent, damages. At the next ensuing term of the court, on the 17th March, 1848, the plaintiff in error filed the following application for a rehearing: This cause was brought up to the supreme court on writ of error from the district court of Liberty county. The first transcript was sent up by the clerk below to the June term of the supreme court for 1844, by mail;…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hemphill
An application was made at the last term to have the judgment, rendered in this cause at a former term, reconsidered. And we then stated, in substance, that the question of the authority of this court to reconsider a judgment given at aformer term, being for the first time presented, and being important in practice, the application would be granted, in order that the subject might be fully considered, and the question settled for the government of all future causes.
The cause was argued some weeks since by counsel for the defendant in error (the plaintiff not being represented), and we now…
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