Case ID: tex-civ-app_13/html/0192-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company of Texas v. N. B. Stafford et al.
    Delivered March 5, 1896.
    Practice on Appeal — Absence of Statement of Facts — Affirmance.
    Where the statement of facts has been stricken from the record on appeal, the judgment will be affirmed, although some of the errors pointed out under the assignments are patent upon the face of the record, unless it can be shown that such errors have worked injury to the appellant.
    Appeal from Harris. Tried below before Hon. S. H. Brashear.
    Baker, Botts, Baker & Lovett, for appellant.
    
      O. T. Holt, for appellees.
   PLEASANT, Associate Justice.

— The statement of facts, upon motion of appellees, having been stricken from the record, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed. It is insisted by appellant that the errors pointed out under the assignments are, some of them, patent upon the face of the record, and that others are made apparent when considered in connection with the bills of exceptions. This may be conceded, and yet, without a statement of facts, this court cannot say that the judgment is such as should not have been rendered. When the appellate court has before it a complete transcript of the proceedings of the lowei court, and it is shown therefrom that the court erred in the trial of the cause, the appellant is entitled to a reversal of the judgment, unless it is manifest that the error was harmless, and that, upon the facts, as de veloped upon the trial, and the pleadings, no other judgment than tie one appealed from could have been correctly rendered. But the reven e of this is the rule in this court when the transcript contains no statement of facts. In such case, unless the errors complained of are shown to have worked injury to the appellant, the judgment will be affirmed

Affirmed.

Writ of error refused.