Case ID: sw_163/html/0581-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BROWN, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GROCE et al. v. WEST LUMBER CO. et al.
    (Supreme Court of Texas.
    Feb, 18, 1914.)
    Courts (§ 247*) — State Courts — Jurisdiction of Texas Supreme Court.
    Under Rev. Civ. St. 1911, arts. 1521, 1522, as amended by Acts 33d Leg. c. 55, respectively providing that the appellate jurisdiction of the' Supreme Court shall extend to those questions of law in which, by proper application for writ of error, it is made to appear that the Court of Civil Appeals has erroneously declared the substantive law, and that such questions must be presented by application for writ of error, a certificate submitting the substantive law of the case cannot be considered by the Supreme Court; that tribunal having no jurisdiction of such question when presented in that manner.
    TEd. Note. — For other cases, see Courts, Cent. Dig. §§ 487, 749, 751-754, 757, 759, 760, 762-764; Dec. big. § 247.*]
    Certified Questions from Court of Civil Appeals of First Supreme Judicial District.’
    Action between J. W. Groce and others and the West Humber Company and others. There was a judgment for the former, and the latter appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals. On certified questions.
    Certificate dismissed.
    Marsine Johnson, of Galveston, Barkley & Green, of Houston, and Holshousen & German and J. L. Manry, all of Livingston, for appellants. Baker, Botts, Parker & Gar-wood, of Houston, , and Hill & Hill and J. O. Feagin, all of Livingston, for appellees.
   BROWN, C. J.

Because the certificate submits the substantive law of the case, this court has no jurisdiction, and the certificate is dismissed. See article 1522, c. 55, p. 107, Laws 33d Leg. Also see memorandum opinion in First State Bank of Archer City et al. v. F. M. Power (No. 2628) 163 S. W. 581.