Case ID: sw_198/html/1036-02.html
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Author: {"author": "HIGGINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TEXAS & PACIFIC COAL CO. v. GRABNER.
    (No. 738.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. El Paso.
    Nov. 8, 1917.)
    Appeal from District Court, Erath County; J. B. Keith, Special Judge.
    Action by Gottfried Grabnter against the Texas & Pacific Coal Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    AY. J. Oxford and Chandler & Pannill, all of Stephenville, and J. R. Stubblefield, of East-land, for appellant. Turner & Powell, of Ft. AYorth, and Hickman & Bateman, of Stephen-ville, for appellee.
   HIGGINS, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the district court of Erath county, tried before Hon. J. B. Keith, special judge. The facts in connection with the election of Judge Keith are shown in the opinion this day handed down in the case of Texas & Pacific Coal Co. v. Alvin Ready, 193 S. W. 1034, to which reference is here made for the facts.

For the reasons indicated in the opinion in the Ready Case, we hold that the trial in the instant case was an unauthorized proceeding, and the judgment rendered must be reversed.

Reversed and remanded.

. .AYAUTHAXX,. J.,,not sitting, being.absent on committee of judges assisting the Supreme Court.