Case ID: tex_19/html/0057-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Roberts, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Martin D. Hart v. Money Weatherford.
    Where there was a judgment by default, and the record did not show any service or waiver ofprocess, or appearance or answer by defendant, but the Clerk certified that at the time of the rendition of the judgment, there was an acknowledgment of service by defendant, which had since been lost or mislaid, the Court suggested that the defendant in error might take a certiorari for a more perfect record; and the defendant in error having failed to take a certiorari as suggested, the judgment was reversed.
    Error from Hunt.
    
      8. H. Morgan, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Goodman, for defendant in error.
   Roberts, J.

The defendant in error suggests to the Court that this is a case of delay, and asks damages.

Defendant in error recovered a judgment by default against plaintiff in error. The record does not show that any process was served on the plaintiff in error before the judgment was rendered, or any acknowledgment of service, or any appearance or answer by him.

The Clerk certifies that at the time of the rendition of the judgment there was an acknowledgment of service by plaintiff filed in Court, which has since been lost or mislaid. Upon such certificate the Court cannot affirm the judgment.

Under the circumstances the Court will permit the submission of the cause to be withdrawn, and a motion to be made for a certiorari for a more perfect record, to be obtained at defendant’s cost. If such course be not adopted the cause " will be reversed and remanded.

Reversed and remanded.