Marlin's Heirs v. Stockbridge

14 Tex. 165

• Court: Texas Supreme Court
• Decided: July 1, 1855
• Status: Published

Opinion

Wheeler, J.

The objection that the names of but eleven jurors are recited in the entry of the judgment, is entitled to no weight. It doubtless was a mere clerical omission. (1 Tex. R. 638.) But if not, the parties might waive the right to a trial by a jury of twelve men ; and in a civil case especially, after a trial, and when the objection is first made in this Court, they ought to be held to have done so.

The questions presented by the record and in argument, upon the validity of the appellee’s title, have been so fully disposed of and settled by repeated decisions of the Court in other cases, as to render their further consideration and discussion in this case unnecessary. (Hancock v. McKinney, 7 Tex. R. 384; Murchison v. Hall, 10 Tex. R. 461; Jenkins v. Chambers, 9 Tex. R. 167; Bryan v. Jackson, 11 Tex. R. 391; Scott & Solomon v. Maynard and wife, Dallam, 548.) Upon the authority of those cases, and the principles which they maintain applied to the same questions in this case, the judgment must be affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.