Court Opinion

ID: 4891066
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-02 23:50:12.479029+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:09:36.710978
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Walker, J.
The case of Hipp v. Bissell, 3 Texas Reports, page 18, Article 1509 and note 595, Paschal’s Digest, also 10 Texas Reports, 283, are authorities quoted and relied on by plaintiffs in error.
In the last case, Prewitt v. Everett, the court' say it has been decided by this court that if the terms of the statute are complied with on the first and second applications to continue, the court can exercise no discretion or power; that it must be granted. This is but the reiteration of the doctrine laid down in the case of Hipp against Bissell. We do not think .the terms of the statute were complied with in this case. The affidavit must not only aver due diligence, but it must state the facts on which the averment is predicated. Our judgment accords with that of the district court. We do not think the facts show any diligence whatever. The plaintiff in error was not bound on the first application for continuance to state what he expected to prove by his absent witness; but if he should disclose them the court should take them into consideration in determining the application for a continuance. In this case the evidence would have been very material, but the application turned on the question of diligence, and we think the facts did not show that diligence which entitled th^ party claiming it to a continuance. Williams, et al., v. Talbot, et al., 27 Texas Reports, page 159, has been examined and is approved in this case. We do not think this is a proper case for the allowance of damages, but we affirm the judgment of the district court.
Affirmed.
Mr. Justice Ogden did not sit in this case.