Patton v. Cox
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from McLennan County. Cox and others sued Patton and others and had judgment enjoining an execution issued against them for costs of a previous suit. Defendants appealed, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The defendants in error obtained from the judge of the District Court of McLennan County a writ of injunction to restrain the plaintiffs in error, and the sheriff of that county, from enforcing an execution issued out of the said court in the cause styled George M. Patton, Executor, against John P. Cox et al., for collection of costs which accrued in that cause but were not taxed in the bill'of costs at the time-the judgment was settled. The case was tried before the judge of that court, who filed the following conclusions of fact:
“1. I find that the case formerly…
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