228 S.W. 569 | Tex. App. | 1920
Plaintiff in error, Lee Crenshaw, instituted this suit to enjoin the opening of a public road through specified premises owned by him. He alleged that he had not been given legal notice of any proceeding to lay out the road nor to appear before any jury of view, that the jury of view assessed his damages at $500, whereas his real damage was $3,500, and the commissioners' court had illegally reduced the amount assessed by the jury to $250, and he prayed for and obtained a temporary injunction restraining the road overseer from opening the road.
The commissioners' court and road overseer answered by demurrers to the petition, by a general denial, and specially to the effect that the plaintiff when notified by the jury of view appeared before it and presented his claim for damages and made no objection to the proceeding.
The case came on for final hearing at the regular June term, 1919, of the district court of Montague county, and the court after having, as the judgment recites, heard the evidence and argument of counsel, dissolved the temporary writ of injunction theretofore issued, and the plaintiff prosecutes this writ of error from said judgment of dissolution.
Plaintiff in error's first assignment reads as follows:
"The report of the jury is void in that it shows that said jury did not fix or attempt to fix plaintiff's damages. The court therefore erred in dissolving the injunction."
The assignment is treated as a proposition and is followed by this statement:
"Said jury allowed plaintiff $500 damages to his land, but said as to the damages for *570 cutting Crenshaw's cattle off from water we cannot say."
Among other things, that might be said, an all-sufficient answer to the assignment is that we have no statement of facts and therefore cannot review the assignment.
The only remaining assignment of error is the following:
"The negligence of the court stenographer and the clerk in losing all data from which a statement of facts could be made is reversible error."
In support of that assignment plaintiff in error presents the following proposition and statement:
"The negligence of the court stenographer and the clerk prevented the plaintiff from getting up a statement of facts in this case."
The certificate and affidavit referred to as shown by the transcript is as follows:
"No. 5436. Lee Crenshaw v. Montague County. I, J. J. Cox, clerk of the district court of Montague county, Tex., hereby certify that Mr. King, the court reporter, and myself, during the January term, 1920, both made diligent search for his shorthand notes in this case and have been unable to find them; said notes nor said reporter's transcript of questions and answers were ever filed in my office. J. J. Cox, Clerk of the District Court of Montague Co. Tex.
"I, H. W. Hunt, do solemnly swear: That Spencer Cook, attorneys who tried this case, have both moved out of Montague county. That I have been employed to take this case up by writ of error. That I went to the court stenographer and requested him to get up a statement of facts in the case; he made diligent search for his notes and failed to find them, and said that he could give me no data from which to make a statement of facts. That I was not in the trial of the case and know nothing about the facts in the case. H. W. Hunt.
"Sworn to and subscribed and before me this the 16th day of February, A.D. 1920. J. J. Cox, Clerk of the District Court of Montague County, Texas."
We are of the opinion that the assignment last presented must be overruled.
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All assignments are accordingly overruled, and the judgment is affirmed. *571