Case ID: sw_272/html/0437-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CURETON, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RODDY v. FLY et al., Justices, etc.
    (No. 6526.)
    (Supreme Court of Texas.
    May 13, 1925.)
    Courts <&wkey;247(7) — Conflict of opinion between Court of Civil Appeals and old Court of Appeals not one requiring certification to Su¿ preme Court.
    A conflict of opinion between Court of Civil Appeals and the old Court of Appeals, created by Constitution of 1876, is not such a conflict as is contemplated by Rev. St. art. 1623, as amended by Acts 38th Leg. .(1923) c. 48, requiring Court-of Civil Appeals to certify questions to Supreme Court when its decision conflicts with opinion of Supreme Court or other Court of Civil Appeals.
    Original proceeding by H. H. Roddy on motion for leave to file a petition for mandamus , against William S. Fly and others, Justices of the Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District.
    Leave to file petition refused.
    McDanill & Bounds, of McAllen, for relator.
   CURETON, C. J.

This is an original proceeding upon motion for leave to file a petition for mandamus against the justices of the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth district. An examination of the petition for mandamus shows that the writ is asked for because of conflict. The conflict alleged is with the case of Miles v. Mays (Tex. App.) 16 S. W. 540.

That case was not decided by the Supreme Court nor by a Court of Civil Appeals. The decision is by the old Court of Appeals created by and under the Constitution of 1876. That court had jurisdiction of all criminal cases and certain civil eases on .appeal. Harris’ Constitution, p. 373. It functioned until the adoption of the constitutional amendment in 1891, which created the Court of Criminal Appeals and provided for Courts of Civil Appeals. Harris’ Constitution, pp. 372 to 377,

A Court of Civil Appeals is required to certify questions to this court only when its decision conflicts with an opinion of the Supreme Court or of another Court of ¡Civil Appeals. R. S. art. 1623, as amended by chapter 48, General Laws of the Thirty-Eighth Legislature.

Conflict of opinion between a Court of Civil Appeals and the old Court of Appeals, such as is alleged in the petition before us, is not such a conflict. Cosset v. Citizens’ Railway Co., 96 Tex. 1, 3, 69 S. W. 976.

Leave to file the petition for mandamus is accordingly refused. 
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