Legal Opinion

Wilson v. Truehart

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1855PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Error from Galveston. Some of the defendants in error filed a certificate, and moved an affirmance of the judgment, without reference to the merits.

1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.

The motion for an affirmance of judgment must be refused. If Zink be not a necessary party to the writ of error, service appears to have been perfected on the 30th day of January, 1854, during the last Term of this Court; and more than forty days having elapsed before the adjournment of the Court, the record should have been filed during that Term. After the expiration of that period, the appellant, under the ruling of this Court in the case of Wheeler v. The *288State, (8 Tex. R. 228,) had lost the right to have the judgment revised on this writ of error; and the defendants in error might have…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Black v. EppersonTexas Supreme Court · 1874
  2. Laughlin v. DabneyTexas Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Wilson v. John I. Adams & Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1878
  4. Ross v. CantrellCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1925
  5. T. W. House & Co. v. WilliamsTexas Supreme Court · 1874

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