4 Willson 442 | Tex. App. | 1891
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. § 255. Appeal from justice’s court; transcript must be filed, when; motion to dismiss appeal may be made, when; case stated. Appellee obtained judgment in justice’s court against appellant February 13,1890. On February
In Railway Co. v. Connerty (ante, § 207), we held that “ when the transcript and papers from the justice’s court are not filed in the county court on or before the first day of the second term of said court after the appeal is perfected, the appellee should move to dismiss the appeal upon said ground, and such motion should be granted; but such motion must be made at the second term of the court, or it will be considered as waived in case the transcript and papers have in the meantime been filed.” 'By the terms of the statute the papers and transcript may be filed at the second term of the county court. Should this not be done on or before the first day of the said second term, but they are filed at some future day of the term, and no motion is made to dismiss the appeal at that term because of the failure to file said paper, and transcript by said first day thereof, then the right is waived. But, if the transcript is not filed until the third
Affirmed.