# Mabee v. McDonald

> Texas Supreme Court · April 14, 1915 · 107 Tex. 139

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3935479

## Case

- **Full name:** F.A. Mabee v. Henry D. McDonald.
- **Court:** Texas Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 14, 1915
- **Citations:** 107 Tex. 139; 175 S.W. 676; 1915 Tex. LEXIS 134
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence
- **Judges:** Hawkins
- **Cited by:** 28 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed on other grounds by McDonald v. Mabee, 243 U.S. 90 (1917).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3935479

## Opinion text

We concur in the determination that the judgment of the honorable Court of Civil Appeals should be reversed and that of the County Court should be affirmed, basing our opinion that the service by publication upon the defendant in the original judgment was valid, upon the undoubted principle of the amenability of the citizen of the State to its laws, the right of the State to provide by statute for that character of service upon an absent citizen, and the express previous decision of the question by this court in Fernandez v. Casey, 77 Tex. 452 , 14 S.W. 149 .
Reversed and judgment of County Court affirmed.

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