Greenwood v. Watts

1 White & W. 46

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: February 2, 1881
• Docket: No. 1112, Op. Book No. 3, p. 442
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion by

White, J.

§ 114. Discontinuance. If a plaintiff does not insist upon service of citation upon one of several defendants in the court below, but proceeds to trial against the other defendants, it will be considered as a discontinuance of-the suit as to the defendant not served. [Houston v. Ward, 8 Tex. 124; Burton v. Varnell, 5 Tex. 139.]

§ 115. Where there is no statement of facts. In the absence of a statement of facts in the record, the appellate court will presume that whatever facts are necessary to support the judgment of the court below were ¡iroved on the trial.

§ 116. Jurisdiction; county court has none to remove eloucl from title to land. The county court has no jurisdiction of a suit to remove cloud from title to land.

Affirmed.