Opinion

Geiselman v. Brown

  • 30 Tex. 760
Court
Texas Supreme Court
Filed
Jan 15, 1868
Status
Published
Author
Morrill
On the bench
Morrill
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 68.4%

The opinion

Morrill, C. J.

Article 1591, Paschal’s Digest, requires the appellant or plaintiff in error to file with the clerk of the court below an assignment of errors, distinctly specifying the grounds on which he relies, before he takes the transcript of the record from the clerk’s office, and a copy of such assignment of errors shall be attached to and form a part of the record; and all errors not so distinctly specified shall be considered by the Supreme Court as waived.

As no assignment of errors was made as above required, we might dispose of the cause in a few words; but we have examined the record, and find that the plaintiffs brought suit in the district court of Harris county against the defendant, a citizen of Galveston county, for the purpose of rescinding a contract made in the month of December, 1862, for the sale of certain slaves by defendant to plaintiff. From the petition, it seems to be somewhat doubtful as to the objects sought thereby. The allegations are that said slaves were warranted to be slaves for life, and that after-wards they were declared free by the military authority of the Hnited States; that a note for $5,000, payable in four years, secured by a mortgage on said negroes and certain town lots in Houston, [was executed by the plaintiff.]

Defendant demurred and the demurrer was sustained. We are not apprized of the grounds of the demurrer, but suppose that one reason was, because the plaintiff alleges the residence of the defendant to be in a county different *762 from the one in which the suit was brought, without alleging any causes contained, in the exceptions in the statute, which authorize a party to be sued out of the county of his residence. The defendant could waive this objection had he- chosen so to do; but as he both demurred to the action and pleaded, specially insisting upon the privilege of being sued in the county of his residence, it would have been error in the court to have overruled the exceptions thus set up. But wé do not deem ourselves bound to hunt after errors that are not specially assigned, and because there are no errors assigned, the judgment is

Affirmed.

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