Wetsel v. State
Decision Date | 01 November 1893 |
Citation | 23 S.W. 825 |
Parties | WETSEL et al. v. STATE ex rel. HOLLAND. |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from district court, Potter county; H. H. Wallace, Judge.
Proceeding on the relation of J. T. Holland against W. W. Wetsel and others. From a judgment denying an application to set aside a judgment rendered in favor of relator, said Wetsel and others appeal. Reversed.
Joseph Hall, for appellants.
Appellants, on March 18, 1893, filed their written application in the court below, asking that a judgment entered in said court on the 28th of September, 1892, against them as respondents in favor of the state upon the relation of J. T. Holland, be set aside and held void, because the judge who rendered the same was disqualified by reason of interest in the matters in controversy. The judgment sought to be vacated was one dissolving the corporation of the city of Amarillo, and enjoining appellants as officers of said city from collecting the occupation and ad valorem taxes which had been levied upon the inhabitants and property therein. It was agreed that the judge who rendered the judgment owned real and personal property upon which said tax was sought to be collected, and that the collection of his tax was enjoined with the rest. In the case of City of Austin v. Nalle, 85 Tex. 534, 22 S. W. Rep. 668, 960, in speaking of the disqualification of one of the judges of the court of civil appeals, our supreme court says: A pecuniary interest in the result of a suit disqualifies a district judge, both at common law and under our constitution and statute. We regard this decision as conclusive of the question presented by this record, and hold that the court below erred in refusing to vacate the judgment rendered at the previous term. The judgment of the court below will be reversed, and the cause remanded, with...
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