Overton v. Colored Knights of Pythias
| Decision Date | 11 February 1914 |
| Citation | 163 S.W. 1053 |
| Parties | OVERTON v. COLORED KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS et al. |
| Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Action between Annie Overton and the Colored Knights of Pythias and others. To review an adverse judgment, the first-named party brings error. Writ of error dismissed.
D. R. Pickens, of Austin, for plaintiff in error. Hart & Patterson, of Austin, for defendants in error.
Defendants in error object to the consideration of the brief of plaintiff in error, and this objection must be sustained. No assignments of error were filed in the court below. Articles 1612 and 2113, R. S. 1911. Chapter 136 of the Acts of the Thirty-Third Legislature, p. 276, provides that "where a motion for new trial has been filed that the assignments therein shall constitute the assignments of error and need not be repeated by the filing of the assignments of error." Under this statute the motion for a new trial becomes the assignments of error, but this does not dispense with the necessity of copying in the brief such portions of the motion for a new trial as are relied upon in this court as assignments of error. This statute does not abrogate rules 23 and 39 for the government of Courts of Civil Appeals, which require that the record shall contain assignments of error, as required by the statute, and that the failure of plaintiff in error to file assignments of error and briefs in the lower court and the appellate court in the time and manner prescribed by the rules shall be grounds for dismissing the appeal or writ of error for want of prosecution. The assignments of error relied upon must still be copied in the brief, though such assignments be found only in the motion for a new trial.
The plaintiff in error has filed a brief in this court, in which alleged assignments of error are set out, but there is not copied therein a single one of the grounds of the motion for new trial, and therefore the pretended assignments of error cannot be considered by this court. Witherspoon v. Crawford, 153 S. W. 633, 634; Railway Co. v. Reiner, 21 S. W. 1013; Smith v. Smith, 107 S. W. 888; rules 23 and 39 ().
The first pretended assignment of error is that: "The trial court erred in not filing his conclusions of facts and law, when requested to do so by counsel for the appellant." If such a request was made after the motion for a new trial was overruled, of course the...
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