Case ID: tex_23/html/0604-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Roberts, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

N. T. Crunk and others v. William Crunk and others.
    Service must be perfected on all of the defendants in error, before the case can be brought into this court.
    If the petition" and bond be filed, within two years from the rendition of the final judgment, the writ of error is not barred, though the citation be not served upon the defendants until after that time.
    Error from Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Morris.
    
      Motion by the plaintiffs in error to continue the case; and that citations issue to those defendants in error, not served with the process issued from the District Court.
    N. H. Wilson and G. McKay, for the plaintiffs in error.
   Roberts, J.

This case seems to have been brought into this court, before service on all of the defendants in error, under the apprehension, that the remedy by writ of error would be barred by further delay. Motion is made to perfect service, by a citation from this court, to be served on the defendants not served with the citation which issued from the District Court.

The case of Spann et al. v. French, 13 Texas Rep. 91, is cited as authority for such proceeding. That case was overruled by the case of Chambers v. Shaw, 16 Texas Rep. 143, wherein it is held, that the citation in error, issued by the District Court, must be served, before the cause can be properly brought into this court. This has been the general practice, founded on the statute, directing that course to be pursued. (Hart. Dig., Art. 2937.)

As to the writ of error being barred, our statute provides, that no writ of error shall be granted after two years from the rendition of final judgment. (Hart. Dig., Art. 2385.) In practice, the writ of error does not issue at all. The point of time at which it would properly be issued, if issued at all, would be, upon filing the petition and bond. That, then, may appropriately be taken as the time when the writ is granted, whether it be formally issued or not; and if that be within the two years, the remedy is not barred; but the party may proceed, even after the two years, to have the citation served on the defendants.

The citation in error not having been served on all of the defendants, the case must be stricken from the docket.

Dismissed.