Jordan v. Terry

Citations

• 33 Tex. 680

Syllabus

<p>1. When a deputy sheriff performs any ministerial act, his return should disclose for whom he acts as deputy, and for what county.</p> <p>2. A petition for a writ of error should set lorth the residence of the defendant in error, or else allege that it is unknown to the plaintiff in error ; and when the citation and bond in error are both silent respecting the defendant’s residence, they cannot cure an omission of such allegations m the petition.</p> <p>3. A petition, citation and bond in error are fatally defective if, sn their description of the judgment, they state the names of some only of the defendants against whom the judgment in the record was rendered.</p>