Case ID: tex_102/html/0322-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Williams", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MARCH, 1909
    Texas & Pacific Railway Company v. J. E. Butler.
    Application No. 6119.
    Decided March 3, 1909
    Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
    A suit brought in the District Court to enjoin a County Court judgment on the ground that the record showed that the jury were not sworn was one which could have been brought in the County Court. The judgment .of the Court of Civil Appeals therein was final, and the Supreme Court could not grant writ of error. (Pp. 322, 323.)
    Application for writ of error to the Court "of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Eastland County. " :
    
      Earl Conner, for applicant.
   Mr. Justice Williams

delivered the opinion of the court.

The railroad company instituted this proceeding by presenting tq the district judge its petition for an injunction against the enfofce.ment of a judgment against it in favor of Butler in the- County Dbtift of Eastland County, on the ground that it was void for the reason that, as appeared from the record in the- cause in which it was rendered, the jury on whose verdict it was based were not sworn. The district judge granted a temporary injunction, or restraining order, the exact character of which is immaterial to the present purpose and set the application down for a hearing, and, after the hearing, refused the writ and dissolved the preliminary order. Upon appeal the Court of Civil Appeals entered its judgment vacating the order of dissolution. It is from this action that the present application is presented. "Whether the proceeding was properly commenced before the district judge or not, it is perfectly evident that it could have been brought in the County Court with an application to the county judge for the injunction. The case is therefore one in which the judgment of the •Court of Civil Appeals is final and no writ of error lies to this court.

Application dismissed for want of jurisdiction.