Case ID: tex_36/html/0147-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Walker, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

R. B. Murphy v. W. H. Wentworth.
    1. An alternative writ of mandamus sued out in vacation should be made returnable to the next term of the District Court, and it was error to make the writ returnable at chambers, and to hear and determine the case at chambers and grant the peremptory writ.
    2. It is not necessary that a rule should issue on the respondent, requiring him to appear and show cause why an alternative writ of mandamus should not issue against him. The alternative writ is itself in the nature of a rule to show cause why the peremptory writ should not issue.
    Appeal from Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. Hardin Hart.
    The facts of the case are sufficiently indicated in the opinion of the court.
    
      R. B. Murphy, for himself.
    No brief for the appellee has reached the hands of the reporter.
   Walker, J.

The only error in this case necessary to be noticed is in the return of the alternative writ of mandamus. The writ, if sued out in vacation, should be made returnable to the next term of the District Court for the county wherein the respondent resides. It was therefore error to make the writ returnable at chambers; and it was error to hear and determine the case at chambers and grant the peremptory writ. The appellant is in error, contending that a rule should have first issued on the respondent, ordering him to appear and show cause why the alternative writ should not issue. The alternative writ is itself in the nature of a rule to show cause why the peremptory writ should not issue.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause dismissed without prejudice.

Eeversed and dismissed.