Case ID: tex_22/html/0224-01.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

George W. Martin and others v. George W. Wade.
    
    A judgment, “ that the plaintiff have and recover from the defendant, all costs in this behalf expended, for which execution may issue,” is not a final one; although it is recited in the entry of such judgment, that the plaintiff appeared and acknowledged he had received the full amount sued for in the cause.
    Error from Bell. Tried below before tbe Hon. R. E. B. Baylor.
    The entry of tbe judgment, in tbis case, was as follows: “ Tbis “day came the plaintiff, by bis attorney, and acknowledges to “have received tbe full amount sued for; it is therefore considered by tbe court, that tbe plaintiff have and recover of and “from said defendants, all costs in this behalf expended, for “which execution may issue.”
    
      Chamberlin and Flint, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      X. B. Saunders, for defendant in error.
   Roberts, J.

Tbis is a suit upon a title bond, for specific performance. There was no service of process on tbe defendants ; nor does it appear, by tbe recital in tbe judgment entry, that they appeared. Tbe plaintiff appeared, and acknowledged satisfaction of bis demand, and tbe court rendered simply a judgment for costs, against tbe defendants.

It certainly would have been erroneous, in tbis case, to have rendered a judgment against tbe defendants for costs, they having neither appeared nor been served with process. But there being no decree, disposing of tbe cause, there is no final judgment which tbis court can revise. (Warren v. Shuman, 5 Tex. Rep. 441.) Tbe writ of error will therefore be dismissed.

Writ of error dismissed.