Case Name: Adkins v. Forehand
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1853
Citations: 10 Tex. 270
Docket Number: 
Parties: Adkins v. Forehand.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 135–135

Head Matter:
Adkins v. Forehand.
where the residence of the defendant was stated by the orignal petition to be in the county of Harrison where the suit was brought, and the petition for a writ of error contained no averment that the defendant in error was a non-resident at the time of suing out the writ, and it did not appear by the return of the sheriff or otherwise that he could not be found in the county to which the, writ was directed: Held, That service'on the attorneys of record was irregular, and the writ of error was dismissed. (Note 48.)
Error from Harrison.
W. P. Hill, for plaintiff in error.
Clough Law, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Wheeler. J.
There was service of the writ of error on the attorneys of record, and the defendant in error moves to dismiss for the want of legal service.
In the original petition the residence of the defendant in error is stated to be in tlie county of I-Iarrison. There is no averment in tiie petition for the. writ of error that the defendant in error was a non-resident at the time of suing out the writ; nor does it appear by the return of the sheriff or otherwise that he could not be found in the county to which the writ was directed. The service on the attorneys, therefore, appears to have been irregular, and the writ of error must be dismissed. (Hart. Dig., art. 793; 3 Tex. R., 514.)
Writ of error dismissed.
Note 48. — Hughes v. Burleson, post 290; Roberts v. Sollibellus, post 352; Forshey v. Railroad Co., 16 T., 510; Holloman v. Middleton, 23 T., 537; McLamore v. Heffner, 31 T., 180; Laws v. Harris, 33 T., 700.