Case ID: sw_239/html/1117-05.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FLT, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WALTON et al. v. MARTIN et al.
    (No. 6750.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. San Antonio.
    April 26, 1922.)
    Appeal and error <9=»787 — Appeal dismissed where no assignments or briefs filed within one year.
    Where no motion for a new trial was made and no assignments of error or briefs have been filed, although the record had been on file for a year, an appeal will be dismissed for want of prosecution.
    Appeal from District Court, Erath County; J. B. Keith, Judge.
    Action by Mary Martin and husband against J. O., Walton and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
    Appeal dismissed.
   FLT, C. J.

Mrs. Martin, joined by her husband, W. W. Martin, sued J. C. Walton, John Phoenix Oil Association, a joint-stock unincorporated association, said Walton, R. J. Burns, B. I. Marón, and A. B. Lueder as its trustees, and the Phoenix Petroleum Company, for damages growing out of an oil lease of certain land in Erath county. The court rendered a judgment in favor of ap-pellees as against the John Phoenix Oil Association, the Phoenix Petroleum Company, and their trustees, J. C. Walton, R. J. Burns, and B. I. Marón, and A. B. Lueder having died was dismissed from the suit.

No motion for a new trial was made, nor assignments of error filed. No briefs have been filed in this court, although the record has been on file for a year. The cause is dismissed for want of prosecution. 
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