Case ID: tex-civ-app_23/html/0570-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FISHER, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jeff Nickell et al. v. H. F. Carter.
    Decided May 9, 1909.
    1. Sequestration.—Bond.
    A sequestration issued without bond should be quashed on motion, though proper bond was filed on the day following its issuance.
    2. Suit Commenced on Sunday—Sequestration.
    Though sequestration suits may be commenced on Sunday, when the writ is quashed because issued 'without bond, the suit should then be dismissed on motion, as being an ordinary action commenced on Sunday.
    Appeal from the County Court of Coleman. Tried below before Hon. B. F. Rose.
    
      T. R. Austin, for appellants.
    
      J. A. B. Miller and J. K. Baker, for appellee.
   FISHER, Chief Justice.

This is a sequestration suit which was filed in the justice court on Sunday. The affidavit was filed and the writ of sequestration was issued upon that day. The sequestration bond was not approved and filed until the following day. Motion was made in the court below to quash the sequestration proceedings because the writ of sequestration was issued before the filing of the sequestration bond. Another motion was also made that in the event the first motion should be sustained, then the cause of action should be dismissed because the suit was filed on Sunday. The trial court overruled both motions.

We are of the opinion that both motions should have been sustained. The bond is an essential part of the sequestration proceedings and the sequestration writ could not legally issue until the sequestration bond was filed and approved. The bond is as indispensable to the validity of the sequestration proceedings as the affidavit, and both must be filed before the writ could issue. The writ having issued the day before the bond was filed was unauthorized, and the court should have sustained the motion to quash. The law authorizes sequestration suits to be brought on Sunday, hut if the writ had been quashed and the sequestration proceedings dismissed, the case would have then stood as an ordinary suit, which could not have been instituted on Sunday. Therefore the court should have sustained the motion to dismiss the case.

Judgment is here rendered with instructions to the trial court to dispose of the case in accordance with this opinion.

Reversed and remanded, with instructions.