Case ID: willson_3/html/0416-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hurt, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Blanton & Nunnally.
    (No. 2709.)
    Appeal from Rusk County.
    W. O. Buford, counsel for appellant.
    N. B. Morris, counsel for appellee.
   Opinion by

Hurt, J.

§ 347. Certiorari; motion to dismiss must be made and also presented at the return term or it cannot be entertained. Appellees having recovered a judgment in justice’s court against appellant, the latter removed the cause to the county court by certiorari. In the county court, appellee, at the term of the certiorari, filed a motion to dismiss the proceeding, but did not present said motion to the court at said term for action. After several terms of said court had elapsed after the [filing of said motion, appellee presented the same to the court for action thereon, and the court sustained the motion and dismissed the certiorari, etc. Held error. A motiQn to dismiss a certiorari cannot be entertained unless made at the return term of the certiorari. [R. S. art. 311.] Merely filing such motion is not sufficient. It must be presented to the court, and action thereon demanded at said return term.

November 23, 1887.

Reversed and remanded.