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<p>OFFICE OF THE A’ITORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 
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<div class="ocr">Honorable Ce Fe wilde, Fege 2

order, there abail de taxed, eollected
pete es other ¢osts the sum. "of One Do ? men)
each ease, ciyil or criminal, except euits
for delinquent taxes; hereafter filed in every
. County or Distriss Courts pe rovided however, that
| 52,2? event ches any re ogagh state arall it be
. vane @
eoliested by the Clerk of the respective
Courts in said counties and pala dy seid Clerk
to the County Treasurer te be kept: by sald
Bas tarn ooeerere Fane eo be known as
rary Futile * guoh fund |
_ a= atered cor a law iibeery in
Pe ‘maintenance: w ifbrery
fuse weeds ané accessible place, aéd said:
shail not de'used 4 for any other, PURPOSES”

etermiaiag whether such. gum. “of One. Holler °
(geo) matt apelin’ be taxed as other coste {n tien watters,
firat dutermize what is nennt. t Wy. word “came”

“8. ante fo Shis statutes. eo 7

Se defiattions pehyen by ‘the. courts to the word
ease” exe many and conflistings The Supreme Court of |
Texas Ine defined it.ss “a question contested before *,
court of justios; an action or suit is law‘or or etultye ie
-Tewles, 68 Tone 413; 455; Glaven ve Wheeler, 58 Tex.

3, -88)« Yet in the. latter case cited the Suprene Court |
gave the word « different mearing in holding « judge dis-

qualified to try a case in which he had merely a sed
one of the pert Leng before any suit was led.

ne of ‘the ‘Gerfinitions fevered. ise state of
facts wetes furnishes oteasion for the exercise of the .
forisdietion of a court of justice.” {1 Corpus Juris 933}
This definition of “case® seees te have been followed b
the United states Cireult Court fer the District of Califor-
nia ia the ease of County of San Mateo vy. Southern Facific
RYe Goh, 13 Foods. 146... 147, from which we quote:

“By the federal eonatitatios, the judi«—
oder power ef the United States extanda to
011 cases in law and equity ariaing under it,
and under the law. of the United States, and
treaties nade under their authority. the aot

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Honorable ¢. 7, Wilde, Page 3

of 1875, in tte first seetion, invests the

eirouit courts of the United Statea with
original cognizance, coneurrent with the courts
of the several states, ‘of all suits of a

eivil natures: at common law or in equity, thus

artat f , where the metter in dispute exceeds,

exelus: ve. of Gosts, the sun or value of five’

hundeed doliars.* "Te sedond seetion sisieg’”

that aty sult of that. character thus

brought {n.a stete court, may be reneved by

either per perey into the. eireai’ court. of: .the

tas, The terms weed in the agt «

‘ tguite of a sivth aatare’,=~ are ldsa’ copjprehen=

a - the tors ‘cuses? da the ‘oonsticus ion.
the *attar may enbrace. proceciings not usually

or strietly tarned suits, ay ana Beeneeutions’ of

# erviminal na taze » ow ® -

The Courts of Civil Appeals and. the. ‘Supreme Court,
of Texas appesr. to have considered probate matters to be = ”
“olvil cases", inassuch as they have repeatedly token

distion pa appeals. of probate matters fren the district art,
whereas, under the Constitution their jurisdietion ‘axtende.
and 6. chil Ganete Constitution, Article: ve Sections o

a . :

And the Legisiatura of Texas soone alae to inva’
sonsidered probata matters as “civil cases". Witnesa the
lan guece used in Article 1821, Revised. Givil: Statutes. of 1025+

"the fadgaents of the Gourts of civil
Apptale aball be econeluasive on the law and.
facts, nor shall a writ of error bs allowed
thereto from thea Surreme Court in the follow.
ing eases, to wits .

. m(L) Aay elvan case appealed from the
county court or from « district. court, whan,
ander the Constitution, a sounty sours wou
beave hed original or appellate y tien
to try it, exvept inp obate matters: eee”
(Underii ours

Also, the language used in Article S702, relating
to appeals of probate matters to the dintriot court;

*Suech casas shall be tried da. novo in
the district court, and shall be coverned

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