Case ID: sw_278/html/0466-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McClendon, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LANDERS et al. v. CITY OF AUSTIN.
    
    (No. 6935.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas: Austin.
    Nov. 18, 1925.
    Rehearing Denied Dec. 16, 1925.)
    Appeal and error <®^957(l) — Trial court’s discretion to set aside default judgment during term not subject to review.
    Discretion of trial court, whether or not good of adequate cause therefor is shown, to set aside a default judgment during term, is not subject to review.
    Appeal from District Court, Travis County ; Cooper Sansom, Judge.
    Action by E. R. Landers and others against the City of Austin. Prom an order setting aside a judgment by default for plaintiffs, plaintiffs appeal.
    Affirmed.
    Harris & Harris, of Austin, for appellants.
    J. Bouldin Rector, of Austin, for appellee.
    
      
       Writ oí error dismissed for want of jurisdiction February 3, 1926.
    
   McClendon, C. J.

The only grounds of review of the trial court’s judgment urged in this appeal are those which question the propriety of an order setting aside a judgment by default. The order complained of was made at the same term of court at which the default judgment was entered; and the authorities in this state are clear to the effect that the trial court has the power, whether or. not good or adequate cause therefor is shown, to set aside a default judgment or grant a new trial during the term at which the judgment is rendered. The discretion lodged in the trial court in this regard is not subject to review. El Paso & S. W. R. Co. v. Kelley, 99 Tex. 87, 87 S. W. 660; Cohen v. Moore, 101 Tex. 45, 104 S. W. 1053; Goss v. McClaren, 17 Tex. 107, 67 Am. Dec. 646; Sweeney v. Jarvis, 6 Tex. 36; Lawther Grain Co. v. Winniford (Tex. Com. App.) 249 S. W. 195.

The trial court’s judgment is affirmed. 
      
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