24 Tex. 283 | Tex. | 1859
The statute requires the clerk of the Supreme Court to certify the judgments of the Supreme Court, to the courts from which the causes were brought. (O. & W. Dig. 415.) It does not prescribe the time when this shall be done. The mandate, in this case, was filed during the term, and after the first day thereof. The judgment by default, was taken the next day after the filing.
The plaintiffs must be held to have known that their cause was disposed of in the Supreme Court, and was therefore liable to be sent into the District Court for its action. Upon them, process had been served; and when the mandate was filed in the District Court, the case stood as it had done before the first
Affirmed with damages.