Case ID: white-w_1/html/0035-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Winkler, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

R. L. James v. E. L. Proper.
    (No. 1134. Op. Book No. 3, p. 439.)
    Error from Dallas County.
   Opinion by

Winkler, J.

§83. Judgment by default; defective citation. Citation served on defendant November 14, 1818, commanding him to answer the suit on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, 1878, a date prior to the service of the citation. Judgment by default January 9, 1879. Held, that the judgment by default was erroneous. [Covingtons v. Burleson, 28 Tex. 368.]

December 11, 1880.

Reversed and remanded.